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(Wall Street Journal) Jailed whistleblower Bradley Birkenfeld will detail his role in exposing widespread tax evasion in the Swiss banking industry in a clemency request he plans to make to President Barack Obama on Thursday. Birkenfeld, 45, began serving a 40-month sentence in January for his role in helping wealthy Americans evade taxes. He was […]

Washington, D.C. May 3, 2010. In the wake of the gulf coast oil spill, Stephen M. Kohn, Executive Director of the National Whistleblowers Center, released the following statement: We call upon BP and all other companies involved in offshore drilling operations to ensure that any employee who steps forward to expose deficiencies in the offshore […]

Statement by NWC Executive Director Stephen M. Kohn: The Department of Justice (DOJ) press release crediting their efforts to prosecute Bradley Birkenfeld with increasing tax compliance is the very definition of the word ‘chutzpah.’ Prosecuting the whistleblower does not encourage more people to come forward and provide information on tax fraud. The DOJ press release is contradictory […]

In October 2001, Bradley Birkenfeld began working at UBS, in Geneva, as a private banker for high-net- worth clients, primarily in the United States. After learning that UBS’s secret dealings with American customers violated an agreement the bank had reached with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), he attempted to solve matters internally with UBS for […]

(Forbes) Here’s one way President Obama can make April 15 less taxing in the future: Issue a pardon now to former UBS AG banker Bradley Birkenfeld, the most important tax whistleblower in the history of the nation. Mr. Birkenfeld, whom we represent, is the American who blew the whistle on the Swiss bank’s practice of helping thousands […]