July 31st, 2009
Task Force member Global Financial Integrity made a couple of press appearances today. GFI Director Raymond Baker appeared in an Associated Press (AP)
article discussing the UBS case, and GFI Mananging Director Tom Cardamone
discussed the case on Canada's Business News Network (BNN).
From the AP
article:
Raymond Baker, director of the Global Financial Integrity, an organization that works to end illegal international money transfers, said it's critical that U.S. officials push for greater information sharing so tax evasion and other financial crimes can be investigated.
"What happens with the...
July 31st, 2009
Swiss banking giant, UBS, and the US government have come to a tentative settlement agreement in the prolonged legal battle which has pitted the US government against Swiss banking secrecy. From the
Washington Post:
The U.S. and Swiss governments have tentatively settled a dispute in which the U.S. government was seeking information about thousands of American depositors suspected of using accounts at Switzerland's largest bank to hide money from the Internal Revenue Service.
The two sides have "reached an agreement in principle on the major issues," Justice Department lawyer Stuart D....
July 31st, 2009
The U.S. and Swiss governments have tentatively settled a dispute in which the U.S. government was seeking information about thousands of American depositors suspected of using accounts at Switzerland's largest bank to hide money from the Internal Revenue Service.
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July 31st, 2009
As a federal probe of secret Swiss bank accounts made headlines in the summer of 2008, New York businessman Jeffrey P. Chernick got nervous. A middleman in international toy sales, Chernick had hidden millions of dollars from the Internal Revenue Service at Switzerland's largest bank, according to a recent court filing.
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