SAN FRANCISCO AP – A federal judge has set off a free speech tempest after shutting down a U.S. Web site for posting internal documents accusing a Cayman Islands’ bank branch of money laundering and tax evasion schemes.
The Bank Julius Baer & Co. said in papers filed in U.S. District Court in San Francisco that a disgruntled executive fired for “misconduct” stole the documents and illegally posted them on http://wikileaks.org. The bank also said a number of the documents have been altered, but it didn’t provide details.
