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A Texas billionaire evaded $2 billion in taxes, feds say. Now he’s charged in the ‘largest-ever’ tax fraud case. Robert and Dorothy Brockman attend an event in Houston in 2011. Federal prosecutors have charged Texas billionaire Robert Brockman in a $2 billion tax fraud scheme. (Dave Rossman/Houston Chronicle/AP) Robert T. Brockman was so paranoid that the Internal Revenue Service would catch on to his scheme, prosecutors said, that in June 2016 the Texas billionaire allegedly ordered his offshore money handler to travel the United States destroying paper evidence and “electronic media” with shredders and hammers. But on Thursday, prosecutors alleged that his decades-long tax fraud scheme, the largest in American history, had finally caught up to him. A federal grand jury in San Francisco indicted Brockman, 79, on 39 charges, including tax fraud, wire fraud, evidence tampering and money laundering,  authorities said . read://https_www.washingtonpost.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.washin...