By Kevin Stoda, Wiesbaden, Germany
http://de.video.yahoo.com/watch/5481128/14419397
A little over a month ago, the "former banker for the Swiss giant UBS who blew the whistle on the biggest tax-evasion scheme in US history" was sent to jail in the USA - to begin serving a forty-month federal sentence. Bradley Birkenfeld first came forward to US authorities in 2007 and began providing inside information on how UBS was helping thousands of Americans hide assets in secret Swiss accounts.
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/1/7/why_is_the_whistleblower_who_exposed
The National Whistleblowers Center's Stephen Kohn, the executive director and lawyer for Bradley Birkenfeld, has been pushing strongly for Obama to have the case reinvestigated and Birkenfeld freed.
http://www.whistleblowers.org/
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