{"id":11287,"date":"2009-08-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"us-confirms-criminal-cases-against-ubs-clients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/08\/2009\/us-confirms-criminal-cases-against-ubs-clients.html","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Confirms Criminal Cases Against UBS Clients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York Times &#8211; The United States is building criminal cases against more than 150 American clients of UBS as part of a crackdown on tax evasion now made easier by a deal over access to secret account information. <\/p>\n<p>U.S. prosecutors gave their first official confirmation of the initial number of criminal investigations in a filing on Tuesday with a federal court in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The number of criminal probes is widely expected to mushroom soon, Reuters reported.<\/p>\n<p> In the same court document, the prosecutors requested a sharply reduced prison sentence for ex-UBS banker Bradley Birkenfeld, a key informant in the ongoing U.S. prosecutions of wealthy American clients of UBS.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/reuters\/UKFundsNews\/~4\/MpCSZ5_3Z4w\" \/><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=\"> <\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/08\/19\/us-confirms-criminal-cases-against-ubs-clients\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Read Complete Article\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Times &#8211; The United States is building criminal cases against more than 150 American clients of UBS as part of a crackdown on tax evasion now made easier by a deal over access to secret account information. U.S. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[8143,15431,15426,7328,15424,15423,1052,15425,15427,15429,15430,4291,5748,15428,539,4326,8140,422,2513],"class_list":["post-11287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-american-clients","tag-confirmation","tag-court-document","tag-crackdown","tag-criminal-investigations","tag-criminal-probes","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-initial-number","tag-key-informant","tag-lauderdale-florida","tag-mushroom","tag-new-york-times","tag-prison-sentence","tag-prosecutions","tag-prosecutors","tag-reuters","tag-tax-evasion","tag-ubs","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}