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No one, including himself, would argue that Bradley Birkenfeld, 44, is a saint. The former UBS private-banking executive hasn’t hidden the fact that he once bought diamonds with illicit money in Europe and then spirited them to California stuffed in a toothpaste tube, all part of an effort to conceal $200 million in assets on […]

WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)–The key informant who helped U.S. tax authorities build their ground-breaking case against UBS AG (UBS), headed to prison for helping the Swiss bank’s clients evade taxes, is looking to the Internal Revenue Service for a potential multi-million dollar award when he gets out. Bradley Birkenfeld, a former UBS private banker who was […]

Associated Press October 1, 2009. Dangle some cash and a lot of people are happy to turn in their employers for cheating on their taxes. Since Congress beefed up whistleblower rewards in late 2006, tips about suspected tax cheats owing at least $2 million have jumped more than tenfold, the Internal Revenue Service said in a […]

Washington, D.C.  September 17, 2009. Michael D. Kohn, President of the National Whistleblowers Center, is attending the Anti-Corruption and Transparency Symposium this week in Seoul, South Korea, co-hosted by Korea’s Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission (ACRC) and the APEC Secretariat. It is called, “Systematic Approach to Building Anti-Corruption Capacity.” See the Whistleblower Protection Blog for more […]

Washington, DC. September 16, 2009. Stephen M. Kohn, Executive Director of the National Whistleblowers Center (NWC), is in Montenegro this week calling for enactment of whistleblower protections as a key component of transparency.  See the Whistleblower Protection Blog for more information.