Lawyer to Billionaire Who Died on Eve of Tax-Fraud Trial Took His Own Life
- Carlos Kepke faced charges of helping Vista’s Smith cheat IRS
- Trial would have been coda to multi-year probe of billionaires
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A Houston lawyer’s death a day before he was to go on trial for allegedly helping billionaire Robert F. Smith evade taxes was a suicide, according to a medical examiner’s report.
Carlos Kepke died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, in a bedroom at his home on Sunday, according to the website of the Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences.