Bust UBSBy JASON RYANSept. 11, 2012 — An ex-banker and and moncler outlet and convicted tax cheat who told the IRS how his
UBS, helped thousands of wealthy clients duck U.S. taxes has has moncler jackets men has just been awarded $104 million by the U.S. government,
sum his lawyers say is the largest payout ever for for cheap moncler for a whistleblower.Bradley Birkenfeld, who was released from federal prison
weeks ago, pleaded guilty in 2008 to helping American clients clients moncler down jackets clients avoid paying federal income and other taxes to the
As part of his plea, Birkenfeld confessed to helping businessman businessman moncler down jackets businessman Igor Olenicoff conceal $200 million in assets and evade
$7.2 million in taxes.But while Birkenfeld was confessing his own own cheap designer handbags own sins, he also provided testimony that allowed the Justice
to punish his employer, forcing UBS to admit that it it cheap moncler jackets it had allowed its clients to evade taxes by hiding
assets offshore. In February 2009, under a deferred prosecution agreement, agreement, cheap replica designer handbags agreement, the company agreed to pay $780 million in criminal
for offering tax haven accounts for U.S. clients. UBS agreed agreed cheap replica designer handbags agreed to release data on almost 5,000 client accounts.Birkenfeld's lawyers,
M. Kohn and Dean A. Zerbe, of the Washington-based National National cheap moncler National Whistleblowers Center, said that because of Birkenfeld the IRS

been able to recover $5 billion in revenue from 33,000 33,000 cheap replica handbags 33,000 U.S. citizens who have voluntarily disclosed their offshore accounts."The
sent 104 million messages to whistle-blowers around the world -- -- replica designer handbags -- that there is now a safe and secure way
report tax fraud," said the National Whistleblowers Center in a a replica designer handbags a statement. "The IRS also sent 104 million messages to
around the world – stop enabling tax cheats or you you cheap moncler you will get caught."According to Kohn and Zerbe, the $104
award is the largest award to an individual whistleblower to to moncler outlet to date, and the first awarded to an IRS whistleblower.The
report disclosing Birkenfeld's award said that "while the IRS was was moncler outlet was aware of tax compliance issues related to secret bank
in Switzerland and elsewhere, the information provided by the whistleblower whistleblower cheap replica designer handbags whistleblower formed the basis for unprecedented actions against UBS AG."Birkenfeld
serving a 40-month prison sentence in January 2010. According to to moncler jackets men to the federal Bureau of Prisons inmate locator, Birkenfeld was
on August 1 and is serving the remainder of his his cheap replica designer handbags his sentence in a community corrections center in the Philadelphia
Charles Grassley, R.-Iowa, who authored the whistleblower laws for tax tax cheap moncler tax fraud, said in a statement, "This case provides evidence