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When the Whistle Blows Sue Reisinger Corporate Counsel November 01, 2010 On August 18 a compliance officer at Interactive Brokers LLC in Chicago called the Securities and Exchange Commission to report that two men in Spain had been trading suspiciously in the stock of a company that had jumped 27 percent the day before. The…

There is tremendous public support for Mr. Birkenfeld because he is responsible for the U.S. recovery of billions of dollars. (We’ve put a petition on the Web you can sign here.) While Mr. Birkenfeld is the biggest tax whistleblower in history, he should not be the last. Every American taxpayer owes Mr. Birkenfeld a debt…

The IRS whistleblower program has had a long, hard road but recent events have me a believer that for whistleblowers the land of milk and honey is finally in sight. Three actions have me buying my map for the promised land:  1) the June 20, 2012 memorandum by the Deputy Commissioner of the IRS Steven…

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Washington, D.C. September 6, 2012 – Today, the National Whistleblowers Center released a letter to Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner Douglas Shulman concerning changes necessary to make the whistleblower program effective. The NWC letter addresses a key part of the IRS whistleblower statute that potentially limits the award provided to a whistleblower…