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Jan. 8 (Bloomberg) — Bradley Birkenfeld, a key informant in a U.S. investigation of offshore tax evasion aided by UBS AG, reported today to a federal prison in Pennsylvania to start a 40-month prison term that he denounced as unfair. Birkenfeld, who pleaded guilty in 2008 to conspiracy, told reporters he shouldn’t be jailed for […]

Commentary by Ann Woolner Jan. 8 (Bloomberg) — One of the perks of wearing the robe of a federal judge is that you don’t have to explain yourself. But when a judge sends to prison for three years-plus the man who pointed U.S. tax collectors to billions of dollars of untaxed American wealth, who tore […]

January 6, 2010 (New York Daily News). Barack Obama, who entered the White House promising all this change, should be hailing Bradley Birkenfeld as a modern-day hero. He should erect a statue on Wall Street for this former banker for Swiss giant UBS who blew the whistle on the biggest tax-evasion scheme in U.S. history. […]

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 […]