Press Releases

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 […]

Government is Discouraging Future Tax Whistleblowers Washington, D.C. October 14, 2009. Tomorrow marks the end of the IRS’ amnesty program for special voluntary disclosures by taxpayers with unreported income from hidden offshore accounts.   The entire basis for the IRS amnesty program was due to the efforts of one whistleblower – Brad Birkenfeld – who […]

Washington, D.C. October 7, 2009.  Today the Treasury Inspector General For Tax Administration (TIGTA) released a report finding that “deficiencies exist” in the IRS program designed to promote whistleblower disclosures of tax fraud.  The TIGTA report found that some of the major deficiencies were “inadequate procedures and processes” for administering whistleblower claims, the failure to “timely process” […]