Three things are certain in life. Death and taxes are two of them. The third is tax fraud. With tax day come and gone, federal investigators now face another year of chasing some of America's most colorful paper bandits through mountains of tax returns, bank statements and corporate documents. Have you heard the one about the Alaska plastic surgeon whose wife filed for divorce? Michael D. Brandner, 67, didn't want her to get her share of the couple's money, investigators said. So, prosecutors say, Brandner drove to Central America in 2007 in a 1971 Mercedes to stash $4.6 million in a Panama shell corporation and $350,000 in bank accounts in Costa Rica. Brandner also stuffed a thousand ounces...
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