Seattle-area man pleads guilty in Swiss bank case

A retired Boeing Co. sales manager is the latest of about half a dozen people to accept plea agreements in a federal investigation of tax-evasion schemes involving the Swiss banking giant UBS.

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UBS client from NJ pleads guilty to hiding assets

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

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UBS client from NJ pleads guilty to hiding assets

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.

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Ex-Mets pitcher gets 6 months for tax evasion

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

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Jerry Koosman pleads guilty to tax evasion

Former major league pitcher Jerry Koosman pleaded guilty to federal tax evasion on Friday and could face up to one year in prison.

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Ex-Deutsche Post CEO convicted of tax evasion

A court on Monday convicted the former CEO of Deutsche Post AG of tax evasion, giving him a two-year suspended sentence and a hefty fine.

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Sweden seeks $2.5 mln in Liechtenstein tax probe

Swedish tax authorities said Tuesday they have demanded 20 million kronor ($2.5 million) in back taxes from a dozen people accused of having evaded taxes by stashing money in Liechtenstein.

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Caught in the ongoing U.S. crackdown on offshore tax evasion, the 70-year-old businessman acknowledged the maneuvers to federal prosecutors and tax authorities as he pleaded guilty in July to one count of filing a false tax return. Chernick faces an Oct.

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NEW YORK – One of President Barack Obama's top aides says Fox News Channel acts like a wing of the Republican Party.

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A FOURTH video by an independent filmmaker posing as a pimp along with a purported prostitute has surfaced depicting an ACORN staffer in California assisting the couple in their quest to obtain housing for their illegal sex business.

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The United States is building criminal cases against more than 150 American clients of Swiss bank UBS as part of a crackdown on tax evasion now made easier by a deal over access to secret account information.U.S.

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The Internal Revenue Service has stepped up scrutiny of offshore accounts and foreign income, an enforcement campaign that could sweep up tens of thousands of taxpayers.

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Intelligence and military officials under the Bush administration began preparing to conduct harsh interrogations long before they were granted legal approval to use such methods -- and weeks before the CIA captured its first high-ranking terrorism suspect, Senate investigators h …

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Since the time of Benjamin Franklin, Americans have done their best to disprove his famous statement, "In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes." While we here at Cracked have been at the forefront of disproving the former, we've been a little less  …

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Yesterday, Mrs. Arroyo�s birthday, the Palace tried to create a stir by putting up a montage of 1,000 of her pictures in an effort to make it to the Guinness World Record of the biggest such gimmick.

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The Obama administration is engineering new bailout initiatives in a way that it believes will allow firms benefiting from the programs to avoid restrictions imposed by Congress, including limits on lavish executive pay, according to government officials.

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However, it is very important to realize that once a threat like this has been so widely publicized, it is a very real possibility that there will be "copycat criminals" who will get ideas from the threat and, in the worst of scenarios, carry them out themselves.

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The decision by Switzerland's biggest bank, UBS, to hand over details of a few hundred US clients to the US authorities has shocked the Swiss banking community, and led many to the conclusion that the days of Swiss banking secrecy are now numbered.

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Does this high rate in the pool of Obama's pick likely mean that tax evasion is widespread?

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The practice of Hidden Treuhand is relevant and unregulated. More and more, the relevant practice of Treuhand is used in hiding an asset owner's identity from the outside world. Assets, whether they are corporate shares or fixed assets, can be owned in secret.

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The tax evasion scandal in Germany just got murkier after the appearance of another DVD containing confidential information on people with bank accounts in Liechtenstein. This time the data is reported to come from an alleged blackmailer.

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Germany paid at least €4m for information that led to the arrest of Klaus Zumwinkel, Deutsche Post chief executive, before he resigned last week. The data could claim hundreds more victims in the biggest tax evasion crackdown in the country's recent history.

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Feeling like you haven't done enough lately to get audited? Check out these mistakes to get your return noticed.

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To avoid serving prison sentences for tax evasion, Ed Brown and his wife, Elaine, have locked themselves off from the world on their own terms.

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L'histoire passionnante de deux taulârds, dans leur chemin vers la liberté semée d'embûches par Boss, un gardien de prison frustré. Doliprane est complètement dépendant aux célèbres médicaments éponymes.

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Hatch is such an idiot. How did he think he was going to get away with it?

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