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How Austin billionaire Robert Smith avoided indictment for evading $43 million in federal taxes
Attorney General William Barr ultimately made the call to handle Smith’s case with a non-prosecution agreement.
Visate Equity s Robert Smith of Austin is best known for paying off the college debt of Morehouse College graduates in 2019.(Ricky Carioti / The Washington Post)
U.S. prosecutors and Internal Revenue Service agents spent four years piercing the veil of secrecy that billionaire money manager Robert F. Smith wove to hide more than $200 million in income. Last year, according to people familiar with the matter, a team led by the Justice Department’s top tax prosecutor argued to then-Attorney General William Barr that the evidence warranted indicting Smith, who had made headlines for pledging to pay the student debt of a Morehouse College graduating class.
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