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1. Bradley Birkenfeld served the public interest Mr. Birkenfeld’s voluntary disclosures were historic in nature in terms of cracking the vault of bank secrecy. His official contributions forced UBS to pay $780 million to the United States in fines and penalties. His work also led to the creation of IRS amnesty programs, under which the United States recovered $20 […]

MIAMI (AP) — The key whistleblower in the tax evasion investigation of Swiss bank UBS AG claimed in a complaint Tuesday that prosecutors made false statements to a judge who sentenced him to prison. Attorneys for informant Bradley Birkenfeld asked for an in internal Justice Department investigation and said the “inaccurate, misleading and incomplete” allegations […]

Seeks Correction of False and Misleading Statements Filed With Court and Investigation into Privacy Act Violations Washington, D.C. January 5, 2010. Today UBS whistleblower Bradley Birkenfeld filed an complaint with the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) seeking a formal investigation into incomplete and misleading statements made by attorneys for the Justice Department. DOJ […]

January 4, 2010 (Tax Notes). Sudden changes are seldom witnessed in the tax world. History teaches that for every brilliant tax reform proposal, there is a well-organized lobby seeking to preserve the status quo. Consider offshore tax evasion. For decades policymakers have decried the ability of Americans to illegally shelter assets offshore while failing to […]

MIAMI (Reuters) – A U.S. judge on Monday upheld the prison sentence of a key informant in the tax fraud case against Swiss bank UBS AG and ordered him to start serving his 40-month term as scheduled this Friday. The ruling by Fort Lauderdale Federal Judge William Zloch ignored both public and legal pleas for […]