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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 Pacts Show Interagency Cooperation to Fight Tax Crimes
Stephen M. Kohn, tax evasion lawyer at Kohn, Kohn & Colapinto, was quoted in Bloomberg Tax yesterday regarding new Internal Revenue Service (IRS) ...
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 ...
HSBC Switzerland to Pay $192 Million for Decade-Long Tax Evasion Scheme
Last week, the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) announced the Swiss HSBC Private Bank agreed to pay $192 million to resolve allegations of the bank’s rol ...