{"id":13471,"date":"2009-12-28T09:38:20","date_gmt":"2009-12-28T13:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=13471"},"modified":"2009-12-28T09:38:20","modified_gmt":"2009-12-28T13:38:20","slug":"ubs-case-whistleblower-requests-prison-postponement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/12\/2009\/ubs-case-whistleblower-requests-prison-postponement.html","title":{"rendered":"UBS case whistleblower requests prison postponement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; A key informant in the U.S. tax evasion case against Swiss bank UBS AG has asked a Florida court to postpone the scheduled Jan. 8 start of his prison term, saying he is ready to cooperate further with the U.S. government in the case.<\/p>\n<p>Former UBS banker Bradley Birkenfeld, who was sentenced in August to three years and four months in prison for helping a billionaire hide assets from U.S. tax authorities, made the postponement request in a filing this weekend by his lawyer to a U.S. district court in Florida.<\/p>\n<p>He also requested a hearing to reconsider the 4O-month sentence imposed on Birkenfeld by federal Judge William Zloch on Aug. 21.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Read Complete Article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSN2714777320091227\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; A key informant in the U.S. tax evasion case against Swiss bank UBS AG has asked a Florida court to postpone the scheduled Jan. 8 start of his prison term, saying he is ready to cooperate further with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13471","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13471"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13473,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13471\/revisions\/13473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}