Blow the whistle on rich tax frauds -- go straight to jail!

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

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 National Whistleblowers Center

http://www.democracynow.org/2010/1/7/why_is_the_whistleblower_who_exposed

Audio, video, transcript at link.

PLEASE sign this letter to the Attorney GeneraL asking that he review Mr. Birkenfeld's case -- hosted at the National Whistleblowers Center:

http://www.capwiz.com/whistleblowers/issues/alert/?alertid=14501711&type=ML

to get anyone to listen to him and DoJ is accusing him of withholding information he COULDN'T REVEAL without a subpoena WHICH THEY WOULDN'T GIVE HIM. :crazy:

The way Uncle Sam has treated Mr. Birkenfeld make me think they're not all that interested in going after the real crooks, like Phil Gramm, the Meyer Lansky of the War Party, who Set-Up the Biggest Bank Heist Ever.

We need to give our government mega doses of Vitamin D. (IOW a surge of progressive dems in government, lead by Howard Dean)

Thanks for posting Dem Now, listening to the 9a rerun.

http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2009/8/25/who_is_obama_playing_ball_with

It looked like it was business as usual for President Barack Obama on the first day of his Martha’s Vineyard vacation, as he spent five hours golfing with Robert Wolf, president of UBS Investment Bank and chairman and CEO of UBS Group Americas. Wolf, an early financial backer of Obama’s presidential campaign, raised $250,000 for him back in 2006, and in February was appointed by the president to the White House’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board. Economic recovery for whom?

Interestingly, Wolf’s appointment came in the same month that UBS agreed to pay the U.S. $780 million to settle civil and criminal charges related to helping people in the U.S. avoid taxes. Not to worry. UBS, an ailing bank with a pre-existing condition, had great insurance coverage. It was actually receiving $2.5 billion in a backdoor bailout from bailed-out insurance giant AIG. Sen. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, said, “It looks like we’re simply laundering this money through AIG.” UBS, this bank that shelters wealthy tax dodgers, was actually being bailed out by hardworking U.S. taxpayers...

...Last Friday, as Wolf was preparing for his golf game with Obama, UBS whistle-blower Bradley Birkenfeld was sentenced to 40 months in prison for facilitating offshore tax evasion through UBS banking schemes, despite assisting federal investigators in exposing the secretive bank..."

This type of crap is what is so annoying about politicians.

could have hired. :shrug:

:hi:

:dem:

-Laelth

This is outright strange.

He disclosed all of his information before the indictment!

It was the justice department. That's what's going on.

Rich, powerful people can't be held accountable. That's what this is about.

Are we there yet?

:-(