Last week’s outsized bounty award of $104 million to former UBS AG banker-turned-whistleblower Bradley Birkenfeld has commentators lighting up the Twitterverse with outrage and the Wall Street Journal calling Birkenfeld’s tale one of “sordidness piled on sordidness.”
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Washington Times and FSN discuss importance of The Handbook
Kohn said the most important step in cases where ordinary citizens step forward to reveal fraud is “who you blow the whistle to and what you say.”…
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UBS Banker, Bradley Birkenfeld, blew the whistle on Credit Suisse
In June 2007, UBS whistleblower Bradley Birkenfeld revealed detailed information about high-profile individuals and banks, including Credit Suisse, to the United States Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service.
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CNBC Airs Whistleblower Series “Bounty Hunters”
Mr. Javers interviewed NWC Executive Director, Stephen M. Kohn and UBS whistleblower Bradley Birkenfeld, among others. This series is very timely in light of the rulemaking currently in progress for implementing the Dodd-Frank whistleblower provisions.
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Father of UBS Whistleblower Makes Personal Thanksgiving Day Plea for Son’s Clemency
Today, Ronald Birkenfeld, father of UBS whistleblower Bradley Birkenfeld, made a personal Thanksgiving Day appeal to President Barack Obama for his son to be released from prison.
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Whistleblower Disclosures Result in Historic International Treaty
n an unprecedented move the Swiss parliament voted to approve a deal between the Department of Justice (DOJ) and UBS in which UBS has agreed to turn over the names of 4,450 U.S. citizens who held secret and illegal bank accounts at UBS……
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Senator Grassley Backs UBS Whistleblower, Swiss Parliament Rejects DOJ UBS Deal
In the past 24 hours there have been significant developments in the case of UBS whistleblower Bradley Birkenfeld. Three years ago, the former UBS banker provided the U.S. government with detailed information on how to identify the names of 19,000 American citizens who held illegal secret bank accounts at UBS bank in Switzerland. He reported the largest tax fraud scheme in history, and for the first time there was a crack in the vault of Swiss bank secrecy……
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2010 National Whistleblower Assembly
Yesterday concluded the 2010 National Whistleblower Assembly. Staff from the National Whistleblowers Center participated in a number of panels on major issues facing the whistleblower community.
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Swiss Banker Turned Whistleblower Ended Up With a Prison Sentence
This Sunday’s Washington Post featured an article that details Bradley Birkenfeld’s actions as a whistleblower, and how those actions landed him in federal prison. The article discusses the contradictory messages sent to potential whistleblowers by the U.S. government:…
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UBS Whistleblower Files Clemency Petition
Today, Bradley Birkenfeld, the whistleblower who exposed the $20 billion illegal UBS tax fraud scheme, submitted a direct appeal to President Barack Obama and filed an official petition requesting clemency. Mr. Birkenfeld blew the whistle on a $20 billion program run by UBS designed to recruit wealthy Americans and assist them in evading U.S. taxes. The clemency petition……
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