Almost a month after UBS executives faced a congressional grilling over the bank's alleged attempts to circumvent U.S. tax laws, the Justice Department has brought charges against a client of the Swiss banking giant. As part of DOJ's attempt to determine the identities of UBS's U.S. clients -- UBS provided a list of between 250 and 300 client names -- federal prosecutors have charged accountant Steven Rubinstein with filing a false income tax return. The Zurich-based bank still faces an IRS suit.
April 03, 2009 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
Almost a month after UBS executives faced a congressional grilling over the bank’s alleged attempts to circumvent U.S. tax laws, the Justice Department has brought the first charges against a client of the Swiss banking giant.
As part of the Justice Department’s attempt to determine the identities of UBS’s U.S. clients, federal prosecutors have charged Steven Rubinstein, an accountant in Boca Raton, Fla., with filing a false income tax return.
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