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I Won $104M for Blowing the Whistle But Was the Only One Who Went to Jail

461 点作者 monsieurpng超过 8 年前

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bradleybuda超过 8 年前
A little more detail from a neutral source on why Birkenfeld was jailed: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;content.time.com&#x2F;time&#x2F;business&#x2F;article&#x2F;0,8599,1928897,00.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;content.time.com&#x2F;time&#x2F;business&#x2F;article&#x2F;0,8599,1928897...</a>
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tptacek超过 8 年前
This almost makes some kind of sense. The &quot;whistleblower award&quot; he got was the percentage of recovery the IRS pays as a bounty for intelligence on tax avoidance schemes; it&#x27;s a portion of the money he actually helped recover for the government. There is a rational case to make for someone being both fully culpable for wrongdoing while still remaining entitled to bounties they&#x27;ve satisfied.<p>For another complicated IRS recovery bounty case, see the story about Vanguard&#x27;s &quot;internal whistleblower&quot; who is making the case to the IRS that their cost-saving structure is an unfair advantage, and that they owe taxes on those savings to the government. If that &quot;whistleblower&quot; prevails, he&#x27;ll have harmed the retirement savings of tens of millions of Americans, all of whom benefit from Vanguard&#x27;s novel structure. But there you go!<p>As for this guy&#x27;s superiors not being prosecuted, yeah, that sucks. The prosecutors can only make the cases they can make; this guy confessed.
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guelo超过 8 年前
It&#x27;s worth noting that both Kathryn Keneally, the assistant attorney general mentioned in this article, and Kevin Downing, the lead prosecutor that got him jailed, both now work for private law firms helping large corporations shelter their taxes.
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intrasight超过 8 年前
Whistle blowing is a total crap shoot. We&#x27;d have much more of it if that wasn&#x27;t the case.
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chc超过 8 年前
It sounds like he didn&#x27;t actually go to jail for the crime he blew the whistle on, per se, but for continuing to cover up part of the crime afterward by refusing to produce information they knew he had. Maybe all the folks who got non-prosecution agreements actually cooperated with investigators.
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Green-Man超过 8 年前
&quot;<i>I’ve tried to invest the reward money wisely. I collect Formula One memorabilia and antique hockey gear and sweaters from the NHL’s Original Six teams.</i>&quot;<p>I&#x27;m not sure if I understand the term &quot;wisely&quot; correctly.
ipsin超过 8 年前
I was so confused by the chronology, particularly with respect to smuggling diamonds in a toothpaste tube[1], which I&#x27;d read about previously.<p>What I can&#x27;t figure out is if that evidence was actually retained and entered as evidence at trial, or if the image in the article I linked was a reconstruction.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;upstart.bizjournals.com&#x2F;views&#x2F;columns&#x2F;2008&#x2F;09&#x2F;17&#x2F;UBS-Diamond-Smuggling-Scandal.html?page=all" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;upstart.bizjournals.com&#x2F;views&#x2F;columns&#x2F;2008&#x2F;09&#x2F;17&#x2F;UBS-...</a>
JakeAl超过 8 年前
His book: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;lucifersbanker.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;lucifersbanker.com&#x2F;</a><p>As secretary of state, in an unusual move Hillary Clinton intervened with UBS to help it out with the IRS and DOJ. He seems to imply that Hillary brokered the treaty to release the 52,000 names -- a deal which they backed out of citing Swiss law after only providing 4,500 names -- because of the global corporate elites tied to our government, politicians from all over the globe and CIA who would be implicated. He notes that the CIA funneled the money from Iran-Contra through a Swiss bank account, and the plane used to deliver the 400 million in unmarked cash to Iran came from Geneva. He also thinks it was the CIA that leaked the Panama Papers, selectively exposing names.<p>After Hillary&#x27;s deal, the Swiss bank paid Bill Clinton $1.5 million for speaking gigs. Total donations by UBS to the Clinton Foundation grew from less than $60,000 through 2008 to a cumulative total of about $600,000 by the end of 2014, according the foundation and the bank.<p>There is no evidence of any link between Hillary&#x27;s involvement in the case and the bank’s donations to the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation, or its hiring of Mr. Clinton. But her involvement with UBS is a prime example of how the Clintons&#x27; private and political activities overlap.<p>It should also be noted that in 2011 the Clinton Foundation announced a partnership with UBS on the CEO-UBS Small Business Advisory Program which connects &quot;small businesses&quot; with - One-on-one pro-bono strategic financial and business counseling - Access to the entire suite of UBS&#x27;s resources, including senior leaders within the firm&#x27;s marketing, human resources, operations and Investment Banking divisions - Opportunities to network with industry influencers and major decision makers in both the private and public sectors.<p>The ten small businesses enrolled in the program had average annual revenues of $8.44 million in 2010 and together employed a total of 400 people at the end of 2010. The entrepreneurs and their companies who participated are: Julie Azuma, Different Roads to Learning, Inc.; Dinesh and Josh Boaz, Direct Agents, Inc.; K.Y. Chow, GM Printing; Richelieu Dennis, Sundial Creations; Kenny Lao, Rickshaw Dumpling Bar; Tamara Mangum-Thomas, Sharpened Image, Inc.; Mike DiMarino, Linda Tool; Marjorie Perry, MZM Construction &amp; Management Company, Inc.; Jeffrey Smalls, Smalls Electrical Construction, Inc.; and Larry Velez, Sinu.
wrs超过 8 年前
Just to clarify a minor point -- the person he says threw her Blackberry across the room in frustration over his award is described by the NYT article as being frustrated because it was <i>larger than her department&#x27;s entire budget</i>, not necessarily because he got an award at all.
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victorhooi超过 8 年前
Aha, but does he need to pay taxes on that $104 million? =)
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ensiferum超过 8 年前
And this is just the tip of the ice berg. Think about all the scheming, scams, power mongering, corruption and outright crime that goes on in the banking business. Self regulation my ass. They&#x27;re gambling on the whole planet basically. And ofc nothing will ever chance, because the banks own the goverments. A single &quot;occupy wall street&quot; protester will certainly get more time in the jail for minor offence than a bank exec would ever get for his crimes.
themodder666超过 8 年前
Fuck this guy. No, seriously, fuck this guy. Why in the hell would anybody who&#x27;s not an asshole decide to aid and abet the state in its coercive expropriation of money? I find this guy repulsive.
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