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Whistleblower: Some U.S. pols kept off-shore accounts with UBS
NY Daily News ^ | 4/16/10 | Juan Gonzalez

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: obama; obamabundlers; robertwolf; swissbankaccounts; ubs; ubsamericas; wolf
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To: jimbo123

“Dead Man Talking”


21 posted on 04/18/2010 4:04:43 PM PDT by meadsjn (Sarah 2012, or sooner)
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To: jimbo123

Robert Wolf, CEO of UBS Americas, who has bundled more than $370,850 for Barack Obama so far this year, is one of the most embarrassing skeletons in BO’s money closet, now that the financial institution Wolf heads up in America has been outed in The Nation’s Attack of the Global Pirate Bankers.

http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/4088


22 posted on 04/18/2010 4:13:04 PM PDT by Hypo
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To: jimbo123

The only one to see prison time is the original voluntary whistleblower in the case. American prosecutors are corrupt beyond belief.


23 posted on 04/18/2010 4:36:41 PM PDT by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie.)
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To: jimbo123

ping


24 posted on 04/18/2010 5:03:00 PM PDT by phockthis
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To: jimbo123

For starters, Ted Kennedy was rumored to have off shore bank accounts.


25 posted on 04/18/2010 5:15:39 PM PDT by alice_in_bubbaland (Markets and Marxists Don't Mix! Audit the FED NOW!)
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To: StopObama2012
Paging Barney’s frank.

I'd really rather you didn't! :-)

26 posted on 04/18/2010 5:51:35 PM PDT by DemforBush (Somebody wake me when sanity has returned to the nation.)
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To: alice_in_bubbaland

What about Charlie Rangel?


27 posted on 04/18/2010 6:22:26 PM PDT by jimbo123
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To: jimbo123

All Republicans on the list will be ripped new a-holes, Demonrats will be shoved under the rug.


28 posted on 04/18/2010 7:18:09 PM PDT by Recovering_Democrat
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To: jimbo123; Black Agnes

I’d like to see the list.

But the smarter ones probably own offshore real estate, given as gifts.


29 posted on 04/19/2010 5:03:22 AM PDT by Travis McGee (---www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com---)
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