Bradley Birkenfeld, UBS Tax Evasion Whistleblower, To Get $104 Million From IRS

Tax Evasion Whistleblower To Get Some Money For His Troubles
FILE - This undated handout photo released by the National Whistleblowers Center, shows former UBS employee Bradley Birkenfeld. Birkenfeld, the imprisoned ex-Swiss banker credited with exposing widespread tax evasion at Swiss bank UBS AG is seeking clemency from President Barack Obama, his attorneys said Wednesday, April 14, 2010. (AP Photo/National Whistleblowers Center, File)
FILE - This undated handout photo released by the National Whistleblowers Center, shows former UBS employee Bradley Birkenfeld. Birkenfeld, the imprisoned ex-Swiss banker credited with exposing widespread tax evasion at Swiss bank UBS AG is seeking clemency from President Barack Obama, his attorneys said Wednesday, April 14, 2010. (AP Photo/National Whistleblowers Center, File)

Sept 11 (Reuters) - U.S. tax authorities have awarded $104 million to a whistleblower in a major tax fraud case against Swiss bank UBS AG that widened a government crackdown on Americans avoiding taxes in Switzerland, his lawyers said on Tuesday.

Bradley Birkenfeld, freed last month from prison, was not present at the news conference where his attorneys announced the reward made u n der an Internal Revenue Service whistleblower program that has come in for some criticism in Congress.

Birkenfeld had sought a large payout for his role in a tax-dodging case that resulted in early 2009 in UBS entering into a deferred prosecution agreement and paying $780 million in fines, penalties, interest and restitution.

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