He later graduated summa cum laude from the University of Florida in 1963, and was a member of its business honor society.
[1][2] Brockman started his career in 1964 as a marketing trainee with Ford Motors, and was a Marine Corps reservist at the same time.
[8] On September 5, 2018, IRS agents and Bermudan police executed a search warrant for a raid in Bermuda on the home office of Evatt Tamine ("Tamine"), a lawyer who worked closely with Brockman for 14 years and who, according to the Government, helped Brockman illegally conceal assets offshore.
[11] His charges included tax evasion, wire fraud, money laundering, and failure to disclose assets held overseas.
[3] In October 2021, Brockman was among those listed in the Pandora Papers revelations, which exposed offshore tax shelters of the financial assets of hundreds of politicians, business people, and celebrities.
Its founder Robert F. Smith reached a non-prosecution agreement with the United States Department of Justice, agreeing in October 2020 to assist the DOJ in a case against Brockman who was charged that month with what the DOJ called the "largest ever" tax fraud scheme by a U.S. citizen, and to pay a fine of $139 million.
[26] In July 2013, Centre College in Danville, Kentucky announced that it had received a $250 million donation from Brockman's charitable trust.