New Leak of Documents Exposes Tax Shelters, Other Financial Wrongdoing
Posted 11/9/17
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
The “Paradise Papers,” a leak of financial documents from a Bermuda-based law firm called Appleby, shed light on the use of offshores by some of the world’s wealthiest and most powerful people. This is the world’s second biggest leak of such documents, topped only by lasts year’s “Panama Papers.” The 13.4M files were obtained by a German newspaper and reviewed by the...
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New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman’s office announced “Express Hospitality Group” has agreed to pay $13 million to settle claims initially brought by a whistleblower under New York State’s False Claims Act. Schneiderman also announced the conviction of Yankee Clipper Food Services on felony charges for avoiding New York taxes between 2011 and 2015.
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This week, a judge sentenced two biodiesel executives to several years in prison for defrauding the federal government’s renewable fuel support and tax credit programs. Fred Witmer and Gary Jury are the co-owners of Indiana-based Triton Energy LLC, a company that purported to produce and sell biofuel for use in transportation. Instead, the two men used Triton to orchestrate a scheme to fraudulently produce...
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The largest tax fraud case in Australian history—which has already resulted in the 
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Spain's High Court is to question seven former executives from HSBC's Swiss private bank as part of an investigation into alleged money laundering and tax fraud triggered by tax information leaks from former employee turned whistleblower Herve Falciani.
The court said in a ruling that it had decided to widen the investigation to study the flow of funds from HSBC's Swiss...
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NY Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman announced a $40 million settlement with Alabama-based Harbert Management Corporation, fund sponsor for Harbinger Capital Partners, a $26 billion hedge fund in NYC, for violations of the tax provisions of the New York False Claims Act. The settlement resolves whistleblower allegations that members of Harbinger’s investment manager failed...
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In an effort to improve the IRS Whistleblower Office, Senator Charles E. Grassley (R-IA) and Senate Finance Committee ranking member Ron Wyden (D-OR) introduced 
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UBS AG, the Swiss bank, will 
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
On January 27, 2017, the United States Tax Court entered a favorable order for two