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(Wall Street Journal) Jailed whistleblower Bradley Birkenfeld will detail his role in exposing widespread tax evasion in the Swiss banking industry in a clemency request he plans to make to President Barack Obama on Thursday. Birkenfeld, 45, began serving a 40-month sentence in January for his role in helping wealthy Americans evade taxes. He was […]

In October 2001, Bradley Birkenfeld began working at UBS, in Geneva, as a private banker for high-net- worth clients, primarily in the United States. After learning that UBS’s secret dealings with American customers violated an agreement the bank had reached with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), he attempted to solve matters internally with UBS for […]

(Forbes) Here’s one way President Obama can make April 15 less taxing in the future: Issue a pardon now to former UBS AG banker Bradley Birkenfeld, the most important tax whistleblower in the history of the nation. Mr. Birkenfeld, whom we represent, is the American who blew the whistle on the Swiss bank’s practice of helping thousands […]

Washington, D.C. April 2, 2010. C-SPAN has made NWC’s recent seminar “Whistleblowers & the Media” available online. The program, which originally aired on C-SPAN 2, features insights about some of the most famous whistleblower cases in the media, and general comments about what whistleblowers should know before talking with the media.  The panelists include Rich Bonin […]