Wash. woman gets 15 months for tax evasion, must pay $2.5M in restitution

Wash. woman gets 15 months for tax evasion

Oregon anti-tax leader, wife, indicted on tax evasion charges

Ore. anti-tax leader indicted on tax charges

Maine police take on excise tax evaders as recession takes toll on town coffers

Maine police take on excise tax evaders

KITTERY, Maine — It takes Sgt. Charles Denault barely two minutes to spot a dozen cars with out-of-state license plates parked in driveways and outside houses and apartments.

Swiss: Americans who hid 1 mln francs at UBS bank face US tax disclosure

Swiss target Americans who hid 1M francs at UBS

Libya putting 2 detained Swiss businessmen on trial following spat over Ghadafi’s son

Libya to try 2 Swiss amid spat over Ghadafi’s son

JPMorgan settles SEC charges over ‘pay-to-play’ in Ala. county; deal worth over $700 million

JPMorgan settles SEC ‘pay-to-play’ charges in Ala.

Swiss bank UBS reports third-quarter net loss of $542M, blames accounting charges of over $2B

UBS reports 3Q net loss of $542 million

ZURICH — Swiss bank UBS AG reported a third-quarter net loss of 564 million Swiss francs ($542 million) Tuesday, blaming accounting charges of 2.15 billion francs for keeping it in the red.

Detroit voters hope Tues. election brings political stability to City Council, mayor’s office

Detroit seeks political stability with election

NY businessman gets 3-month prison sentence in Fla. for conviction in UBS bank secrets case

Toy salesman gets 3 months jail in UBS tax probe

7,500 international tax dodgers apply for IRS program promising reduced penalties, no jail

WASHINGTON — Some 7,500 international tax dodgers have applied for an amnesty program that promises no jail time and reduced penalties for tax cheats who come forward, the Internal Revenue Service announced Wednesday.

Italy’s Berlusconi vows to defend himself on TV, in court after immunity law overturned

ROME — Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi said Thursday he will go on TV and appear in courtrooms to prove that corruption and tax fraud charges in two trials against him are false.

Italy’s faces tough judicial, political battles after top court overturns immunity law

ROME — Premier Silvio Berlusconi faces judicial and political battles after a top Italian court overturned a law granting him immunity from prosecution and cleared the way for his corruption and tax fraud trials to resume in Milan.

Trial of South Africa’s ex-top cop opens window into shady world of criminal kingpins

JOHANNESBURG — The corruption trial of South Africa’s ex-top cop is opening a window into a shady world of criminal kingpins and alleged graft at the highest levels in law enforcement.

Top court overturns Italian premier’s immunity, Berlusconi spokesman says he won’t resign

ROME — Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi vowed to stay on and “go forward” Wednesday after an Italian court struck down a law granting him immunity from prosecution and allowed trials for corruption and tax fraud to resume in Milan. There were immediate calls for his resignation.

NH woman convicted of standoff after tax evasion case gets 35 years in prison

CONCORD, N.H. — A New Hampshire woman sentenced to 35 years in prison Friday for plotting to kill federal agents during a nine-month standoff at her fortress-like home said she will continue to fight government corruption from behind bars.

Whistleblowers flood IRS after Congress increases rewards for turning in big-money tax cheats

WASHINGTON — Dangle some cash and a lot of people are happy to turn in their employers for cheating on their taxes.

NJ man pleads guilty to failing to report assets held in Swiss bank accounts

NEWARK, N.J. — A New Jersey client of the international banking giant UBS has pleaded guilty to concealing more than $6 million in assets in Swiss bank accounts.

‘Girls Gone Wild’ founder pleads guilty to filing false tax returns, will be sentenced in Nov.

LOS ANGELES — “Girls Gone Wild” founder Joe Francis pleaded guilty Wednesday to filing false tax returns and will avoid further jail time in a tax case that spanned two states and several years.

IRS extends amnesty program for international tax cheats to accommodate rush of applicants

WASHINGTON — Procrastinating tax cheats will get a few extra weeks to apply for an amnesty program that has been flooded with applications from people who hid assets overseas.

Former Orange County assistant sheriff gets 27 months in federal prison for tax evasion, fraud

SANTA ANA, Calif. — A former Orange County assistant sheriff has been sentenced to 27 months in federal prison for tax evasion and mail fraud.

Mayor: Fundraiser for ex-Ill. governor told police before he died that he overdosed

CHICAGO — A former chief fundraiser for ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich told a police officer before he died that he overdosed on a prescription drug, the mayor of the south Chicago suburb of Country Club Hills said Sunday.

Officials to autopsy ex-Blagojevich adviser who died a week before prison term was to start

CHICAGO — A week before one of ex-Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s closest advisers was to go to prison for fraud, the commercial roofing contractor died at a Chicago hospital, and the mayor of a town where he was found said the death was being investigated as a suicide.

Ousted Ill. Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s former chief fundraiser dies, days before prison term began

CHICAGO — A former chief fundraiser for ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich died Saturday, just days before he was to begin serving at least eight years in federal prison for fraud that included using his company’s money to pay gambling debts and claiming it as a business expense.

2 former NE Pa. judges charged with racketeering, money laundering in kids-for-cash scheme

ALLENTOWN, Pa. — Federal prosecutors have ratcheted up their pursuit of two former Pennsylvania judges accused of taking $2.8 million in kickbacks to place youth offenders in private detention centers.

Former Mets pitcher Jerry Koosman sentenced in Wisconsin to 6 months in prison for tax evasion

MADISON, Wis. — A federal judge on Thursday sentenced former major league pitcher Jerry Koosman to six months in prison for not paying his taxes.

Report: France gets list of 3,000 possible tax evaders from Switzerland

GENEVA — France has received a list of 3,000 French taxpayers with bank accounts in Switzerland as part of a double taxation agreement signed between the two countries last week, according to a report in a French newspaper Sunday.

Attorney General investigating whether Conn. taxpayers involved with offshore accounts

HARTFORD, Conn. — Attorney General Richard Blumenthal says he’s investigating whether any Connecticut residents are illegally evading taxes through offshore accounts.

Detained Chinese legal activist released but says government investigating tax case

BEIJING — A prominent Chinese legal scholar whose rights group has tackled some of China’s most politically sensitive cases and his office assistant have been released on bail as authorities investigate possible tax charges against the group.

More than 3 years in prison for ex-Swiss banker who became key US tax evasion witness

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A former banker with Switzerland’s UBS AG is sentenced to more than three years in prison after becoming a key government informant in an international tax evasion probe.

Swiss banker, lawyer charged with helping clients evade US taxes

MIAMI — A Swiss banker and a lawyer are the latest to face U.S. criminal charges in a wide-ranging international tax evasion investigation.

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