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The US Department of Justice Mishandled Birkenfeld Case Costing Taxpayers Billions Washington, D.C.  February 4, 2010.  According to Time Magazine , German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaüble announced on Tuesday that the German government has agreed to buy a CD from an anonymous informant that contains the details of up to 1,500 people who are suspected of holding […]

January 28, 2010 (Washington Post). Americans who hid money from the Internal Revenue Service in secret Swiss bank accounts may escape exposure, at least for now. An agreement between the U.S. and Swiss governments that was supposed to blow the cover on 4,450 accounts at Switzerland’s largest bank is in danger of collapse. The Swiss […]

A campaign is building in the United States to defend Bradley Birkenfeld, the former employee of Swiss bank UBS who has started serving a 40-month prison term. Birkenfeld blew the whistle on illegal practices by UBS, in which the bank helped Americans avoid paying taxes, but was himself sentenced after pleading guilty in 2008 to […]

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 […]