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Swiss Bank Wegelin Pleads Guilty To Helping Americans Hide Offshore Accounts
by Brian Mahany Switzerland’s oldest private bank appeared in a Manhattan federal courtroom yesterday through one of its managing directors and pleaded guilty to helping Americans hide offshore accounts from the IRS. The United States has pursued other foreign banks but never has it actually indicted a bank. As part of the guilty plea, Wegelin [...]
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Felon Sues UBS For Reporting Her Unreported Foreign Account?
by Brian Mahany Here is a novel case. Nadia Roberts is recently pleaded guilty to knowingly filing a false tax return. According to the charge, Nadia and her husband Sean opened a bank account in the Isle of Man using a nominee name. That account was not disclosed on her tax return nor did she [...]
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What About Hiding My Money in Some of the Lesser Known Places?
by Brian Mahany “What about hiding my money from Uncle Sam in some of the lesser known countries?” That question has been asked of us from time to time. Of course, we can’t and won’t help people evade taxes. By now, readers of this blog know that it isn’t safe to hide your money from [...]
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Beware America? Or Beware Wegelin?
by Brian Mahany In the aftermath of the indictments against three Wegelin bankers for conspiracy to defraud the U.S. government, I thought it interesting to post the investment “commentary” called “Farewell America” published on the Wegelin website in August of 2009. As of this writing, it is still available for anyone to read. For those [...]
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More Swiss Bankers Indicted – This Time From Wegelin & Co
by Brian Mahany It’s a new year and already the feds have indicted 3 more Swiss bankers, this time from Wegelin & Co, Switzerland’s oldest private bank. The feds say that the 3 helped American holders hide $1.2 billion from the IRS. On January 3rd, an indictment was unsealed in a Manhattan federal court charging [...]
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