 The home of convicted tax evaders Ed and Elaine Brown is scheduled to go up for auction, and prospective bidders are being allowed to take a look inside. View photos 
 
 New Hampshire businessman James Hollander bought both properties belonging to convicted tax evaders Ed and Elaine Brown during a federal auction that attracted seven bidders and lasted only about 15 minutes. The Browns are now in their 70s and serving prison sentences of more than 30 years. Elaine Brown’s former dental office in Lebanon, N.H., will also be for sale. To entice buyers, the minimum bids for both the Browns’ house and Elaine’s dental office have been cut in half from the first sale attempt, with price tags of $125,000 for the compound and $250,000 for the office. The structure has more than 6,000 square feet of living space, but it's largely unfinished. During the standoff, Ed Brown assured law enforcement and the public that there were booby traps and explosives hidden throughout his property. "They can't guarantee that they have found everything, but they have done a good-faith search over and over again," Sweeney said. There are solar panels and a wind turbine on the land, but investigators have found explosive devices, as well. "But it also comes with 100 acres, and with that price, it's a heck of a deal." The Browns built their house on and around an existing structure, and portions of the original roof are visible from inside the home. There is also a hidden door at the back of a closet, which leads to an underground bunker and an escape route outside through a manhole. Another odd structure in the house is Ed Brown’s 360-degree turret that he used to survey his property during the standoff. The real losers here might be the local towns of Plainfield and Lebanon, New Hampshire who are owed $196,000 and $324,000 in back taxes, respectively.
– Two New Hampshire properties finally sold at auction Thursday, despite the fact that they may be booby-trapped. The Christian Science Monitor has the backstory: A 6,000-square-foot house on a 100-acre property, plus a nearby dental office, were owned by Ed and Elaine Brown, who were convicted of tax evasion but managed to fend off federal agents during a nine-month standoff that finally ended with their arrests in 2007. During that standoff, they amassed an arsenal of weapons and explosives and claimed their compound was booby-trapped. There was an auction last year, but federal agents couldn't guarantee the property was booby-trap-free, and no one bought either property. At that time, the compound was listed with a starting bid of $250,000; this time around, the minimum bid was slashed in half. A businessman, James Hollander, ultimately paid $205,000 for it, plus $415,000 for the dental office. Authorities had been worried the properties might once again fail to sell; an IRS liquidation specialist told WMUR last week, "They can't guarantee that they have found everything, but they have done a good-faith search over and over again." The station reports that investigators did actually find explosive devices, and that a warning was included in the notice of sale. But WCVB reported Thursday that "the hilltop house and the grounds up to the tree line have been ... deemed free of improvised explosive devices." The former presence of booby traps isn't the only interesting thing about the compound: There's a turret with a tower that offers a 360-degree view of the property; a hidden door that leads to an underground bunker and an escape route to the outside via manhole; and, as the house was built over an existing house, in one section you can see that a floor was built atop the old house's roof. (A pot farmer's own booby trap led to his demise.)