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  • ** FILE ** Bradley Birkenfeld, a whistleblower in the tax evasion case against Swiss bank UBS AG, holds a news conference outside the Schuylkill County Federal Correctional Institution in Minersville, Pa., Friday, Jan. 8, 2010, before reporting to the federal prison. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

    IRS pays $104 million to whistle-blower

    The IRS awarded the largest whistle-blower award in history — $104 million — to a former banker who gave information that helped expose a $20 billion offshore banking scheme, the recipient's attorneys said Tuesday.

  • Banker Bradley Birkenfeld, a whistleblower implicated in a tax evasion case against Swiss bank UBS AG (left) and Stephen Kohn, executive director of the National Whistleblowers Center, hold a press conference in January 2010 before Birkenfeld reports to a federal prison. (Associated Press)

    Whistleblowing handbook points up some serious pitfalls

    The "single most important event" in cases where ordinary citizens step forward to reveal fraud and corruption, according to Stephen Kohn, is "who you blow the whistle to and what you say."

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