January 5, 2009 -
Jesselyn Radack, homeland security director for the Government Accountability Project in Washington, said Birkenfeld is a victim of a power struggle between two
January 5, 2010 - Ex-UBS Banker Birkenfeld Ordered to Prison Jan. 8 (Update4)
“I gave them the biggest tax fraud case in the world,” Birkenfeld said. “I exposed 19,000 international criminals. And I’m going to jail for that?”...
January 5, 2010 - Judge Refuses to Delay Prison for UBS Informant
Judge William J. Zloch of Federal District Court in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., rejected the request for a delay from the former UBS banker, Bradley C. Birkenfeld...
January 5, 2010 - Vanity Fair article sheds more light on suicide of ex-Beneficial Corp. Finn Caspersen
Caspersen may have had big financial troubles with the IRS...
January 4, 2010 - U.S. Is Said to Consider Easing Informant’s Term
Mr. Birkenfeld appeared on “60 Minutes”... “I gave them the biggest tax fraud case in the world. I exposed 19,000 international criminals. And I’m going to jail
January 4, 2010 - U.S. considering lesser term for UBS whistleblower: report
The U.S. Justice Department is considering whether to ask a judge to reduce the jail sentence of Bradley Birkenfeld...
January 3, 2010 - UBS whistleblower to appear on `60 Minutes'
Bradley Birkenfeld... is scheduled to appear on CBS' 60 Minutes Sunday at 7 p.m.
January 3, 2010 - France hails success in rooting out tax cheats
Switzerland was furious over France's decision to use the stolen information to track down fraudsters...
December 30, 2009 - UBS whistleblower asks why he is going to prison
"I gave them the biggest tax fraud case in the world," Birkenfeld says in the interview...
December 28, 2009 - Swiss bank secrecy emerges from 2009 with holes
Switzerland's finance minister acknowledges that he had a rough time this year after the Swiss bowed to international pressure on banking secrecy...
December 28, 2009 - Informant Says He Will Assist Further in Tax Case Against Swiss Bank
An informant in the tax evasion case against the Swiss bank UBS has asked a Florida court to postpone the scheduled Jan. 8 start of his prison term...
December 27, 2009 - UBS Informant Seeks Delay, Reconsideration Of Prison Sentence
Former UBS private banker Bradley Birkenfeld... said he is "ready, willing and able" to assist the government in prosecuting additional U.S. clients of UBS...
December 23, 2009 - French to send data back to Switzerland
France will send Swiss authorities a list of bank accounts that HSBC's Swiss private banking unit says was stolen by a former employee...
December 23, 2009 - French showdown looms over stolen bank data
HSBC Geneva insisted the theft only affected around 100 clients and stated it did not have anywhere near as many as 130,000 foreign accounts on its books...
December 18, 2009 - UPDATE 1-France says did not break rules on Swiss bank data
France defended its decision to accept stolen client data, some of which was taken from HSBC's (HSBA.L) offshore banking headquarters in Geneva...