Why Is the Whistleblower Who Exposed the Massive UBS Tax Evasion Scheme the Only One Heading to Prison?

Democracy Now by Amy Goodman | Jan. 7, 2010 (News Analysis)

(Multimedia) A former banker for the Swiss giant UBS who blew the whistle on the biggest tax-evasion scheme in US history is preparing to head to prison tomorrow to begin serving a forty-month federal sentence. Bradley Birkenfeld first came forward to US authorities in 2007 and began providing inside information on how UBS was helping thousands of Americans hide assets in secret Swiss accounts. We speak with his attorney, Stephen Kohn, the executive director of the ... Full Story »

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Subjects: U.S., Politics, Business
Topics: Law Enforcement, Law, Finance, Taxes, Corruption
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Posted by: Posted by Dwight Rousu - Jan 7, 2010 - 6:07 PM PST
Reviewed by: Dwight Rousu (review), Tanya J. Maurer (review)
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Edited by: Dwight Rousu - Jan 10, 2010 - 11:02 PM PST

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 by Dwight Rousu - Jan. 11, 2010

Insightful and alarming.

The super rich seem to have taken over the legal system.

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  • UBS whistleblower in prison, court rules on files

    Reuters by Jason Rhodes, Jonathan Stempel | Jan. 8, 2010 (News Report)
    The chief whistleblower in the UBS AG tax secrecy probe entered prison to serve a sentence he considered unfair, hours after a Swiss court ruled the bank should not have been ...
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