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IRS Announces Amnesty Deal for Offshore Accounts
By Mara Gay - AOL NewsThe Internal Revenue Service is offering a new amnesty deal for offshore accounts, promising that tax evaders who pay their debts won't face prosecution but making it clear that those who do not could end up behind bars. IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman said the agency is making the offer ahead of ramped-up enforcement against Americans who use offshore accounts to evade federal taxes. "We are not letting up on pursuing offshore tax evasion, and there will continue to be more in the works," he said, according to The Wall Street Journal. "If you come in voluntarily, you pay a steep price but ...
WikiLeaks Handed Data on Secret Swiss Bank Accounts
By Theunis Bates - AOL NewsLONDON -- A former Swiss banker today supplied anti-secrecy site WikiLeaks with two CDs containing account details on more than 2,000 high-profile politicians, celebrities, crime bosses and multinationals suspected of tax evasion. Swiss whistle-blower Rudolf Elmer -- the former chief operating officer of the Cayman Islands subsidiary for Swiss bank Julius Baer -- handed the discs to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange at a press conference in London. The data relate to offshore bank accounts allegedly held by individuals and companies from across the world, including the U.S., U.K. and Germany, ...
Lawrence Taylor Pleads Guilty to Sex Charges: A Timeline of His Legal Troubles
By Mary Phillips-Sandy - AOL NewsFootball Hall of Famer Lawrence Taylor has pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor sex charges. He will have to serve six years of probation and register as a sex offender, but will avoid jail time. The former New York Giants linebacker was arrested last year and charged with felony rape after he was accused of paying to have sex with a 16-year-old girl. Police said the girl had been forced into prostitution by a man named Rasheed Davis, who was charged with sex trafficking. Taylor, who claimed he thought the girl was 19, was ultimately charged with misdemeanor sexual misconduct and patronizing a ...
David Broder Is Not the Dean of Me (And I Do Not Cry for Charlie Rangel)
By Melinda Henneberger - Politics DailyIf David Broder wants to weep for Charlie Rangel, that is his business. What bothers me, though, about Broder's Washington Post column justifying and praising the censured congressman, is the mortifying suggestion that the long-serving "dean of the Washington press corps" is speaking for, as he says outright at one point, "many of us in the press gallery.'' I hope that's not the case, as I not only disagree with nearly every word of "Happy Warriors Brought Low," but see in it much of what America minds about our poor, ailing industry. "This was a sad time for many of us watching Charlie ...
Corruption Trial Begins on Spain's Classy Costa del Sol
By Dana Kennedy - AOL News
(Sept. 30) -- Until this week, when 300 journalists arrived to cover Spain's biggest-ever municipal corruption trial, the coastal resort of Marbella was known mostly as a glamorous getaway for wealthy celebrities and a second home for thousands of British citizens. Now it's main claim to fame is what prosecutors say was a complex, multimillion-dollar property scam that began around 1991 and flourished during the now-dead Costa del Sol real estate boom. They allege that top city officials took bribes in exchange for granting often illegal building permits, netting the purported mastermind ...
Meg Whitman Far From Only Politician With Housekeeper Troubles
By David Knowles - AOL News(Sept. 29) -- Good help (that won't come back and cause you trouble as you seek political office) is hard to find. Today, California gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman's former housekeeper, an undocumented worker, held a news conference to detail her mistreatment "as a longtime, Latina household employee" in the Republican nominee and former eBay CEO's home. The veracity of the claims remains uncertain. The housekeeper is represented by celebrity attorney Gloria Allred, who Whitman's campaign has called a "shameful manipulator." The scenario in which a prospective politician's former ...
Nicolas Sarkozy Embroiled in Campaign Finance Scandal
By Delia Lloyd - Politics DailyHe's captivating. He's tough. And he loves a challenge. But all that may not be enough to save President Nicolas Sarkozy of France as he fights for his political life amid a burgeoning campaign finance scandal. At issue is whether Sarkozy accepted illegal cash donations to his 2007 presidential campaign from Liliane Bettencourt, the French heiress to the L'Oréal fortune and the world's third-richest woman. A former accountant to Ms. Bettencourt has asserted that Sarkozy regularly received cash payments from the heiress and said on one occasion, his campaign was given a cash donation of some ...
Kwame Kilpatrick, Former Mayor of Detroit, Indicted on Corruption Charges
By Mara Gay - Politics DailyEx-Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick has been indicted by a federal grand jury on corruption, fraud and tax charges. The 19-count indictment, handed down Wednesday afternoon, accuses the already disgraced, criminally convicted former mayor of using his nonprofit organization, the Kilpatrick Civic Fund, to funnel money to family, friends and his own bank accounts. Prosecutors say the money, which was supposed to go to voter education efforts, was instead spent on yoga and golf lessons for Kilpatrick and his family, the Detroit Free Press reported. If he is convicted of the new charges, he ...
Brad Birkenfeld: Tax Cheat and UBS Informant Doesn't Deserve Pardon
By Joann M. Weiner - Politics DailyPennsylvania prison inmate Bradley C. Birkenfeld, one of the most controversial and interesting characters in modern banking history, recently asked President Barack Obama for clemency. I hope he doesn't get it. The former UBS banker is a world-class tax cheat and opportunist. But Birkenfeld, a 45-year-old U.S. citizen, is also a tax informant and whistle-blower, partly responsible for helping the IRS crack the biggest U.S. tax evasion case in history two years ago. And that's what makes his story so compelling. Birkenfeld is both a sinner and a saint. For every person like me, satisfied ...
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