Spotlight: Bradley Birkenfeld
"Defendant Birkenfeld['s]... substantial assistance has been timely, significant, useful, truthful, complete and reliable." (Department of Justice, August 18, 2009). The DOJ also admitted that "but for Mr. Birkenfeld [the UBS] scheme would not have been discovered by the U.S. government." Bradley Birkenfeld commenced serving a three-year and four-month sentence in federal prison on January 8, 2010, a direct result of blowing the whistle on one of the largest tax fraud schemes in U.S. history.
Bradley Birkenfeld filed his official clemency petition on Tax Day, April 15th. Your support is urgently needed! Take action by clicking here.
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- Read the Treasury Department Inspector General's Report
- Read NWC Press Release
- Read TIME Magazine article on how IRS whistleblower was mishandled
- Read 8-21-09 sentencing transcript from the US District Court in the Southern District of Florida
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Exhibits to Staff Report
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False Claims Act Corrections Act of 2009 Testimony
Hearing on Proposals to Fight Fraud and Protect Taxpayers: False Claims Act Corrections Act of 2009
By Joseph E. B. White, President & C.E.O. Taxpayers Against Fraud
House Committee on the Judiciary, April 1, 2009 -
WASHINGTON - Senator Chuck Grassley today said that employees of the Food and Drug Administration deserve clarification from the Acting Commissioner about their ability to communicate with Congress and the Inspector General following a memo issued last week that warned employees about releasing information.
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Report by the Project on Government Oversight
The Food and Drug Administration's Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) oversees the safety of medical devices. Internal documents obtained by POGO reveal a decision made by senior CDRH officials that could put patients' lives at risk. Since 2006, the FDA is not ensuring that medical devices such as cardiac defibrillators, pacemakers, replacement heart valves, and coronary artery stents are being tested according to good laboratory practices.
February 18, 2009
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