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Attorneys for UBS whistleblower Bradley Birkenfeld have written to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder asking that he reconsider the Justice Department's prior recommendation that Birkenfeld be sentenced to prison.  The attorneys have asked specifically that the Justice Department investigate the...

I am pleased to report a favorable decision today from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. In Stone v. Instrumentation Laboratory Co., No. 08-1970 (4th Cir. 12-31-2009), the Court reinstated David Stone's SOX case after a lower...

Last week, Justice Joyce A. Wheeler of Maine's Androscoggin Superior Court issued an excellent decision awarding attorney fees in Maine Human Rights Commission v. Saddleback, Inc., Case No. CV-06-219 (Dec. 17, 2009, Order Regarding Attorneys Fees). The case arose when...

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is now considering a proposed regulation that would expand the types of personal injury compensations that are exempt from income tax.  The proposed rule would eliminate the requirement that compensation be paid as part of...

I have received calls and emails asking why the NWC supports UBS whistleblower Brad Birkenfeld. This article published on Forbes.com helps answer that question. Mr. Birkenfeld, like countless other employees, blew the whistle because he believed it was the right...

Whistleblowers who open the door on offshore accounts are not only exposing tax evasion but also the criminals involved in human trafficking,terrorism, drugs and bribery. The Department of Justice needs to immediately review the negative ramifications of prosecuting individuals who...

A reporter from World Radio Switzerland recently interviewed Stephen Kohn on Bradley Birkenfeld, the Swiss banker who blew the whistle on secret offshore accounts.

The Associated Press reports that since Congress beefed up the rewards for tax whistleblowers late in 2006, the number of big money tips coming to the IRS has jumped from 116 in 2007 to 1,246 last year. "The tax code...

The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals reinstated a Sarbanes-Oxley case and made some helpful comments about SOX. In a decision issued last month, the Court reversed a dismissal by a Nevada magistrate judge and sent the case back so...

WCNC television news released a story last week about BB&T bank whistleblower Amy Stroupe. While working as an investigator for the bank, she uncovered a $20 million ponzi scheme. A bank official and some developers used a phony land development...