End “Repeal by Delay” in the IRS Whistleblower Program
This article was originally published by JD Supra. In 2006 Congress passed a qui tam whistleblower reward law for tax. It covered both tax frauds and ...
Whistleblower Attorneys Applaud New Bill to Strengthen IRS Whistleblower Program
Yesterday, Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) introduced the IRS Whistleblower Program Improvement Act. This legislation will streng ...
IRS Whistleblower Program Recovers $472 Million from Tax Cheats
Today, the Internal Revenue Service’s Whistleblower Office released its 2020 Annual Report documenting over $86 million in payments to 169 whistleblow ...
Journalists Call for Trump to Pardon Swiss Bank Whistleblower
As President Donald Trump heads into his last few weeks in office, he has started to hand out pardons. This has prompted calls for the President to pa ...
IRS Tax Evasion Whistleblower Details How He Took Down Swiss Bank Secrecy
IRS tax evasion whistleblower Bradley Birkenfeld, whose disclosures broke the seal of Swiss bank secrecy, was recently featured in a story published b ...
International Whistleblower Attorney Encourages Global Use of U.S. Whistleblower Laws
Stephen M. Kohn, whistleblower attorney at Kohn, Kohn & Colapinto, recently delivered a keynote address at the 2020 Association of Certified Fraud ...
Danske Bank Whistleblower who Uncovered Major Money Laundering Scheme Featured in Fraud Magazine
Howard Wilkinson, the Dankse Bank whistleblower who risked everything to expose a money-laundering scheme of over $230 billion flowing through the Est ...
Using Whistleblower Qui Tam Reward Laws to Prosecute Bank Fraud and Economic Crimes
Stephen M. Kohn, whistleblower attorney at Kohn, Kohn & Colapinto, recently wrote an article published in International Banker explaining the use ...
Can Whistleblowers Stop Money Laundering? An Analysis Of The Illicit Cash Act’s Whistleblower Provision
This article was originally published in Mondaq Currently pending in the U.S. Congress is Senate Bill 2563, the Illicit Cash Act. This bipartisan bill ...
New Irish Directives Lack Protections for Workplace Whistleblower Reports
On November 25, 2019, Ireland published the new European Union (Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing) Regulations 2019, amending the Criminal Just ...
IRS Whistleblower Office Annual Report Confirms Success of Program
Yesterday, the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) Office of the Whistleblower released its annual report to Congress on the IRS Whistleblower Progr ...
IRS and TTB Announce Procedures for Processing IRS Whistleblower Reward Claims
On December 3, 2019, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) signed a Memorandum of Understanding fo ...