Tax Fraud

Global High Wealth Industry Group Created: New IRS Unit Will Target The Very Wealthy

Wall Street Journal | MARTIN VAUGHAN | Posted 10.27.2009 | Business


WASHINGTON -- A new Internal Revenue Service enforcement unit targeting the very wealthy will help the tax agency decode partnerships, offshore trusts...

Semion Mogilevich: Powerful Mobster Was Added To FBI's Most Wanted List

CNN | Jeanne Meserve | Posted 10.22.2009 | World


NEWTOWN, Pennsylvania (CNN) -- Semion Mogilevich may be the most powerful man you've never heard of. Mogilevich's alleged brutality, financial savvy ...

Carbon Traders Arrested For Tax Fraud

nytimes.com | James Kanter | Posted 09.21.2009 | Green


British officials said the people arrested could be part of an organized group that operated a network of companies trading large volumes of the permi...

United States of America vs. UBS: A Step Too Far?

Georges Ugeux | Posted 09.19.2009 | Politics


Georges Ugeux

There is no winner when fundamental rule of law and customer loyalty are not respected. This will have major ramifications outside of Switzerland and the United States.

UBS Deals Cause Switzerland To Back Down on Bank Secrecy

Marilyn Barrett | Posted 09.19.2009 | Business


Marilyn Barrett

While we Americans are rightfully angry with our banks, the Swiss must be furious with UBS for the havoc it has wrecked on their famous banking industry, which relied on secrecy for much of its success.

Famous Tax Cheats (SLIDESHOW)

Huffington Post | Marcus Baram | Posted 05.14.2009 | Home


Last year, Americans owed $345 billion more than they did in 2007, amounting to almost 14% of federal revenues, according to the IRS. So, it's not su...

GE Alleges Attorney Took Documents, Fed Them to Reporter

Corporate Crime Reporter | Posted 08.01.2008 | Business


General Electric has charged a former in-house attorney, Adriana Koeck, with illegally taking privileged and confidential company documents and feedin...

Sen. Levin Calls For UBS To Clean Up Or Shut Down Over Tax Evasion

Huffington Post | Posted 07.25.2008 | Business


**UPDATE** The Wall Street Journal reports that UBS will close private-banking operations for U.S. clients: A UBS AG executive told a U.S. Senate pa...

Super Rich Tax Cheats Outed by Bank Clerk

ABC News | Brian Ross and Rhonda Schwartz | Posted 07.23.2008 | Business


Hundreds of super-rich American tax cheats have, in effect, turned themselves in to the IRS after a bank computer technician in the tiny European coun...

Ex-UBS Banker Pleads Guilty, Will Help Prosecutors

AP | JESSICA GRESKO | Posted 06.27.2008 | Business


FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida — A former UBS executive has pleaded guilty to helping clients hide hundreds of millions of dollars and evade U.S. taxe...

Two Types Of Tax Fraud On The Rise

New York TImes | LYNNLEY BROWNING | Posted 04.18.2008 | Business


Thieves are increasingly obtaining fraudulent tax refunds by using the identities of lawful taxpayers, according to a government watchdog report relea...

Miami Man Indicted Over $132 Million Tax Fraud

Miami Herald | DAN CHRISTENSEN | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


A big-spending Miami businessman who once owned fleets of planes, boats and automobiles was arrested Tuesday at his waterfront home on Hibiscus Island...

Wesley Snipes Acquited Of Tax Fraud, Still Faces Misdemeanor Charges

AP | TRAVIS REED | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


OCALA, Fla. — Action star Wesley Snipes was found not guilty of federal tax-fraud and conspiracy charges Friday, but was convicted on three misd...

Cisco Executives Arrested In Brazil

Financial Times | Jonathan Wheatley, Kevin Allison | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


Brazilian police have arrested 40 people including three acting senior executives and one former president of the Brazilian subsidiary of Cisco System...