New Hampshire officials are auctioning a lavish property where armed tax-evaders held them in a standoff for nine months in 2007 -- with a caveat emptor clause that it “could be booby-trapped” with explosives.
The “buyer beware” status of the 103-acre estate seized from Ed Brown and his wife Dr. Elaine Brown nearly a decade ago discouraged bidders last summer, since auctioneers considered it too hazardous to permit advance inspections.
But this time around interested parties were granted access to the heavily wooded parcel in Plainfield New Hampshire before submitting their bids today … and apparently no prospective buyers got blown up.
The site is where the Brown’s confronted the IRS eight years ago, in an infamous armed standoff that dragged on for months before the couple was finally raided by officers posing as pizza-delivery men.
They are each serving out a 30-year prison sentence now, not just for refusing to pay taxes and challenging the U.S. government’s right to collect these, but plotting to kill federal agents.
The auction will take place in the state’s capitol city and all proceeds will go toward the $500,000 debt the feds claim Ed and Elaine Brown still owe them.
