Posted on 04/18/2010 2:57:53 PM PDT by jimbo123
A former banker who blew the whistle on thousands of secret bank accounts rich Americans held at Swiss giant UBS claimed Thursday some U.S. politicians also kept off-shore accounts with the bank.
"We had an office in Washington that we all referred to as the PEP office - for 'Politically Exposed People,'" Bradley Birkenfeld said.
He was speaking by phone - on tax day, no less - from Schuylkill County federal prison in Pennsylvania, where he is serving a 40-month sentence for his role in the tax evasion scheme.
"Only top managers from the bank knew the names of the political clients," Birkenfeld said.
Executives from the bank's U.S. subsidiary, UBS America, he added, helped promote those off-shore accounts through a New York "referral desk" that steered U.S. clients to their Swiss colleagues, and through dozens of high society events that the U.S. subsidiary often sponsored.
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I’ll take a wild guess that it involves mostly Rats.
10 bucks says Hill and Bill are on that list.
I am sure we are all shocked.
not
I wouldn’t take that bet but you can tell if you’re right or not by how much media coverage this gets and whether they have an investigation. If you’re right, neither will happen. Plus the guy in prison might have a sudden case of Arkancide.
Paging Barney’s frank.
Paging Tommy (little round red eyeglasses) Daschle.
Paging Tiny Timmy Geithner, aka Turbo Tax Geithner.
Paging Charlie “I’m Black Thus Innocent” Rangel.
Wanna bet The Kenyan is going to give this whistleblower the Jim McDougal treatment in prison?
Here: http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/15/former-banker-for-ubs-seeks-shorter-sentence/?src=busln
and
here: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE63F5YT20100416
It’s all over the place, but we don’t see what others are saying if we don’t venture out to look.
Not much about the U.S. politicians having the secret Swiss bank accounts at UBS in the MSM reporting. I bet a lot of Obama’s donors are on the list.
Where is the FOIA request from the state-run media? The tax-evaders must be predominantly Democrats.
I’m still waiting for the names of the politicians who were Soviet sympathizers during the Cold War to be revealed.
Silly middle class rabble....taxes are for the little people.
Phone call, Birkenfeld. It’s your life insurance agent. Something about canceling your policy. Also, the warden says you have a new roommate.
We're secretly replacing this prisoner's heart medication with Folger's Crystals. Let's see if he notices.
Does one of them start with a Ken and end with a dy?
Does one of them start with a Ken and end with a dy?
These politicians need to go to jail.
Well, there is nothing illegal about this, you just have to file one of these:
http://www.irs.ustreas.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f90221.pdf
What, you think they didn’t file one?
Only the names of Republicans will be released just right before the election. Even if they had legal accounts the media will cover it as if it was criminal
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