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Former UBS AG private banker Bradley Birkenfeld, the key informant in the landmark U.S. case against the Swiss banking giant, reported to a federal prison in Pennsylvania Friday, while his lawyers stepped up their criticism of the U.S. Justice Department for prosecuting him. Mr. Birkenfeld, speaking by phone while traveling to the Schuylkill County Federal […]

MINERSVILLE, Pennsylvania (Reuters) – Bradley Birkenfeld, the former UBS AG banker who became the whistleblower in the U.S. government’s tax probe of the Swiss bank, on Friday began a 40-month prison term that he had sought to reduce and delay. Birkenfeld, 44, pleaded guilty in June to conspiring to defraud the United States by helping […]

MINERSVILLE, Pa. (AP) — A former banker who provided key assistance in the U.S. tax evasion probe of Swiss banking giant UBS AG reported to prison Friday and said his cooperation should have earned him the federal government’s gratitude, not time behind bars. Bradley Birkenfeld, 44, a former private banker for UBS, said his whistle-blowing […]

Jan. 8 (Bloomberg) — Bradley Birkenfeld, a key informant in a U.S. investigation of offshore tax evasion aided by UBS AG, reported today to a federal prison in Pennsylvania to start a 40-month prison term that he denounced as unfair. Birkenfeld, who pleaded guilty in 2008 to conspiracy, told reporters he shouldn’t be jailed for […]

Minersville, PA. January 8, 2010. At 2 pm today UBS whistleblower Bradley Birkenfeld surrendered to U.S. authorities and commenced serving a three-year and four-month sentence at the Schuylkill County Federal Correctional Institution in Minersville, Pennsylvania. Stephen M. Kohn, the Executive Director of the National Whistleblower Center and one of Mr. Birkenfeld’s attorneys issued the following […]