He'd be 82 so it's not implausible that he actually died last year - though he claimed he couldn't participate in his defense against the IRS charges since he had dementia and the government called 'bullshit' on that. Amusingly, the government has some funny details like he learned that his Bermuda-based co-conspirator had been raided by tax officials while on a fishing trip in Alaska, and then 1 day later emailed a neurologist seeking an appointment to diagnose dementia.
Looks like it was a successful Trump-like attempt to just delay things forever by filing dozens of motions; First mention of a competency hearing was in January 2020, they assigned experts, delayed the examination a bunch of times, appealed certain aspects of it, eventually in August 2020 the experts found him competent, which he then appealed again, and again and again -- after several more hearings and briefs where his lawyers lied about the expert testimony, it was nearly 15 months later that he was formerly found competent to stand trial in May 2021
Vista Partners evaded billions in taxes for almost two decades, it was investigated and exposed in 2018, IRS/DOJ filed charges in 2020, his partner pleaded guilty in late 2020, Brockman was charged in Jan 2021, found competent in May 2022 and then died in August 2022 a free man.
Looks like it was a successful Trump-like attempt to just delay things forever by filing dozens of motions; First mention of a competency hearing was in January 2020, they assigned experts, delayed the examination a bunch of times, appealed certain aspects of it, eventually in August 2020 the experts found him competent, which he then appealed again, and again and again -- after several more hearings and briefs where his lawyers lied about the expert testimony, it was nearly 15 months later that he was formerly found competent to stand trial in May 2021
Vista Partners evaded billions in taxes for almost two decades, it was investigated and exposed in 2018, IRS/DOJ filed charges in 2020, his partner pleaded guilty in late 2020, Brockman was charged in Jan 2021, found competent in May 2022 and then died in August 2022 a free man.
Sounds like a real scumbag.