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Tax,
Criminal

Oct. 27, 2020

Robert Brockman’s $2B tax evasion case has some simple lessons

“Biggest ever” can be a term you might want to hear about some things. But if it is a tax issue you are describing, “biggest ever” is hardly something you want, unless maybe it is the biggest ever tax refund.

Robert W. Wood

Managing Partner
Wood LLP

333 Sacramento St
San Francisco , California 94111-3601

Phone: (415) 834-0113

Fax: (415) 789-4540

Email: wood@WoodLLP.com

Univ of Chicago Law School

Wood is a tax lawyer at Wood LLP, and often advises lawyers and litigants about tax issues.

"Biggest ever" can be a term you might want to hear about some things. But if it is a tax issue you are describing, "biggest ever" is hardly something you want, unless maybe it is the biggest ever tax refund. And if it is a tax crime you are accused of, it is certainly not something you want to hear. In fact, even a small alleged tax crime is nothing to sneeze at. But biggest ever? Yikes.

Texas businessman Robert T. Brockman has been...

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