Billionaire Decries IRS Seizing Wife’s Bank Account in Lien Case

The billionaire facing the largest U.S. tax-evasion case against an individual slammed the Internal Revenue Service for emptying his wife’s bank account as it seeks to collect $1.45 billion from him.

Robert Brockman claimed in a Houston federal court filing that the IRS seized the money Monday and shunned an offer by his family’s Bermuda trust to set aside $1.45 billion while he contests the agency’s civil claims. The seizure occurred the same day U.S. lawyers urged a judge to reject the trust’s proposal to relax liens on Brockman’s property and assets, the filing says.

Robert Brockman departs from a competency hearing at the federal courthouse in Houston, Texas, on Nov. 16, 2021.

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