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Senator Barack Obama won the presidential election this week running as the candidate for change. The change he promised included bringing transparency and accountability back into the federal government. During the past year, we have watched President-Elect Obama use his persuasive oratory to change the American political landscape. His oratory included strong public commitments to ensure […]

HAND SERVICE AND EMAIL October 22, 2009 The Honorable Eric Holder Attorney General of the United States U.S. Department of Justice 950 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W. Washington, D.C. 20530 Re:    URGENT REQUEST FOR INDEPENDENT REVIEW UBS BANK WHISTLEBLOWER CASE BRADLEY CHARLES BIRKENFELD Dear Attorney General: On behalf of the undersigned organizations, we ask that you personally […]

Punishing Whistleblowers Discourages National and International Anti-Corruption Efforts Washington, D.C. October 22, 2009. Today the National Whistleblowers Center (NWC), the Government Accountability Project (GAP) and the Project on Government Oversight (POGO) urged U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to review the case of Bradley Birkenfeld, the international banker who blew the whistle on secret offshore accounts […]

Switzerland (swissinfo.ch) A United States tax amnesty, part of a campaign to crack down on perceived tax havens such as Switzerland, has netted 7,500 repentant tax dodgers. An investigation into UBS, that found that the Swiss bank had helped US citizens evade tax, helped fuel a crusade to weed out cheats who were using offshore […]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Some 7,500 wealthy Americans turned over information about hidden overseas assets, including some valued at more than $100 million, ahead of a tax amnesty program’s Thursday deadline, the top U.S. tax collector said. Doug Shulman, commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, said his agency would expand its crackdown on offshore tax evasion […]