Financial Transparency Coalition

ZURICH (Reuters) - Alan Gold, the U.S. judge presiding over an tax trial against Switzerland's UBS, will hold a status call at 1245 GMT on July 29 in which the Justice Department and the Swiss bank are due to advise him about progress towards a settlement of the damaging tax dispute.

ALEXANDRIA, VA. - Federal Judge T.S. Ellis III summoned prosecution and defense lawyers for a hearing late this afternoon that likely will include discussion, and possibly rulings, on defense motions to drop 15 of the 16 corruption charges against former Rep. William Jefferson and the question on how he should instruct the jury that will decide his fate.

GENEVA (Reuters) - U.S. authorities are targeting client visits by Swiss-based bankers from UBS in their efforts to identify U.S. citizens with accounts at the bank who may have evaded tax, a Swiss newspaper said on Sunday.

Wall Street Journal: New Jersey has never been short of corruption scandals, but the one that unfolded yesterday was surprising even by the standards of the state that inspired "The Sopranos."