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IRS Honors Whistleblowers With National Whistleblower Day Shout-Out

Posted  08/4/26
IRS Honors Whistleblowers With National Whistleblower Day Shout-Out
By the Constantine Cannon Whistleblower Team Last Tuesday (July 28), the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) provided the ultimate shout-out to whistleblowers by highlighting National Whistleblower Day “and the important role whistleblowers play in exposing fraud, reducing the tax gap, and strengthening compliance.”[1]  It follows a similar toasting of whistleblowers the IRS made on the eve of National...

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IRS Issues Whistleblower Alert on Fraud By Tax-Exempt Entities, Continuing Trend of Increased Agency Reliance on Whistleblowers

Posted  04/29/26
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By the Constantine Cannon Whistleblower Team On April 17, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued a Whistleblower Alert calling on whistleblowers to come forward with any information on the fraudulent misuse or diversion of federal funds and grants by tax-exempt organizations and businesses.[1]  The agency used the Whistleblower Alert to further promote the IRS Whistleblower Program under which whistleblowers...

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IRS Whistleblower Office Honors National Whistleblower Day

Posted  07/29/25
IRS Whistleblower Reward Program
By the Constantine Cannon Whistleblower Team Ahead of July 30, National Whistleblower Appreciation Day, the Internal Revenue Service Whistleblower Office announced its continued recognition of whistleblowers and the essential contributions they offer to fight fraud. Kudos to the IRS for recognizing the important role that whistleblowers play in protecting our nation from fraudsters. National Whistleblower...

Tagged in: Importance of Whistleblowers, IRS Whistleblower Reward Program,

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Credit Suisse Services AG Pleads Guilty to Tax Crimes, Agrees to Pay $510M+ In Case Involving Whistleblowers

Posted  05/14/25
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By the Constantine Cannon Whistleblower Team On May 5, the DOJ announced that Credit Suisse Services AG pleaded guilty and agreed to pay over $510 million to resolve allegations that it conspired to help wealthy Americans evade taxes through secret offshore accounts from 2010 through 2021. The whistleblowers who revealed the bank’s misconduct to the government were all former Credit Suisse employees. The...

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IRS Whistleblower Office Announces New Multi-Year Operating Plan to Advance the Whistleblower Program

Posted  04/25/25
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By the Constantine Cannon Whistleblower Team On April 18, the IRS Whistleblower Office announced its first ever multi-year operating plan aimed at expanding the reach, visibility, and impact of its Whistleblower Program. Created by Congress in 2006, the IRS Whistleblower Program has delivered more than $7.4 billion in collected proceeds and awarded over $1.3 billion to whistleblowers who helped expose...

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Do Not Harass Whistleblowers: UBS Pays 75,000 Euro Fine for Harassing Former Employees Who Reported Tax Fraud

Posted  03/14/25
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French whistleblowers and tax evasion are taken seriously. On March 9, a French court ordered the Swiss bank, UBS, to pay a 75,000 euro fine for psychologically harassing two people who blew the whistle on an arrangement that enabled wealthy French clients to avoid taxes. The French court’s decision concludes a 15-year-long legal battle. UBS Europe absorbed its French subsidiary and has agreed to pay 50,000 euros...

Tagged in: Importance of Whistleblowers, Tax Fraud,

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Contraband, Canada, and Caught for an International Money Laundering Conspiracy: North Carolina Men Will Serve Prison Sentences

Posted  12/11/24
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On December 4, 2024, Jeffrey Doctor (age 52, from Charlotte, North Carolina) and Samuel Baker (age 46, from Laurinburg, North Carolina) were sentenced in connection with a scheme to smuggle cut rag tobacco into Canada from the United States. Cut rag tobacco refers to tobacco plants that are chopped into thin strips and sourced to make smoking tobacco. Doctor was sentenced to 14 months in prison. Baker was sentenced to...

Tagged in: Customs Fraud, Money Laundering, Tax Fraud,

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Do Not Mess with the IRS Whistleblower Program! An American Cautionary Tale Featuring a PRC Scheme to Topple Falun Gong

Posted  11/27/24
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When foreign agents attempt to exploit and bribe their way through the U.S. whistleblower programs, the consequences are severe. On November 19, 2024, John Chen, 71, was sentenced to 20 months in prison for acting as an unregistered agent of the People’s Republic of China (“PRC”) and attempting to manipulate the IRS Whistleblower Program to advance the Chinese government’s transnational repression campaign...

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IRS Whistleblower Office Issues Fiscal Year 2022 Report: Challenges Persist but Program Recovers $172.7 Million Nonetheless

Posted  07/17/23
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The IRS Whistleblower Office has released its Annual Report to Congress for the 2022 fiscal year. The report describes the tax fraud tips sent by whistleblowers to the IRS Whistleblower Program, the proceeds collected thanks to those tips, and the whistleblower awards made by the Program from October 2021 through September 2022. While the Program’s collected proceeds and whistleblower awards increased slightly...

Tagged in: IRS Whistleblower Reward Program, Statistics, Tax Fraud,

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Top Ten Tax Enforcement Actions of 2022

Posted  02/8/23
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Tax fraud can take many forms, but each form results in shortchanging government coffers.  More seriously, with our tax system depending heavily on taxpayers’ willingness to voluntarily file tax returns and pay taxes, tax fraud undermines confidence in the system.  Enforcement of tax laws builds confidence in the system, and deserves to be a law enforcement priority. The top tax recoveries in 2022 start with...

Tagged in: Abusive Tax Shelters, Cryptocurrency, Employment Tax Fraud, Financial and Investment Fraud, Tax Fraud, Top 10,

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