U.S. Collections from Birkenfeld Disclosures

NAME

State

CHARGE/ PLEA

SENTENCED

TIME SERVED

Paul Zabczuk

Texas

Pled guilty to filing false tax returns

3 years of supervised release with 1 year served in home detention and 100 hrs community service

NO PRISON TIME

Federico Hernandez

New York

Concealing ownership of his UBS accounts.

12 months in prison, 6 months home confinement and, ordered to pay a civil FBAR[1] penalty of $4.4 million

 

Jules Robbins

New York

Concealing income from the IRS

One year probation and ordered to pay a civil FBAR penalty of $20.8 million

NO PRISON TIME

Roberto Cittadini

Washington

Pled guilty to filing false tax return and concealing $2 million

6 months home detention and 1yr supervised release & ordered to pay $10,000 & $17, 985 in restitution

NO PRISON TIME

Steven Michael Rubinstein

Florida

Filing false tax return and intentionally failed to disclose the existence of a Swiss bank account and income earned on the account

3 years probation, with 12 months served in home detention

NO PRISON TIME

John McCarthy

California

Concealing a Swiss bank account from the US govt.

3 years of supervised release with 6 months served in home detention and 300 hours community service. Also ordered to pay $25, 000 fine

NO PRISON TIME

Jeffrey Chernick

New York

Pled guilty to filing false tax return

3 months in prison and 1 year of supervised release w/a 6 months served in home detention. Judge later reduced prison sentence to one month

 

Juergen Homman

New Jersey

Pled guilty to failure to file a report of FBAR

5 years probation and ordered to pay $ 60, 000 fine.

NO PRISON TIME

Kenneth Heller

New York

One count of tax evasion; One count of willful failure to file an FBAR

Fugitive

NO PRISON TIME

Shmuel Sternfeld

New York

Criminal indictment for tax evasion

Case Pending

NO PRISON TIME

Sybil Nancy Upham

New York

Pled guilty to one count of conspiring to defraud the IRS; Three counts of subscribing to false federal income tax returns; Four counts of willful failure to file an FBAR

Awaiting Sentencing

 

Samuel Phineas Upham

New York

Helping his mother defraud U.S. Tax Authorities

 

 

Ernest Vogliano

New York

One count of conspiring to defraud the IRS; Five counts of subscribing to false federal income tax returns; Four counts of willful failure to file an FBAR

Case Pending

NO PRISON TIME

Richard Werdiger

New York

One count of conspiring to defraud the IRS; Five counts of subscribing to false federal income tax returns; Two counts of willful failure to file an FBAR; Two counts of filing a false FBAR

Case Pending

NO PRISON TIME

Jack Barouh

Florida

Pleaded guilty to filing false tax returns

Sentenced to 10 months in prison and ordered to pay all taxes, interest and penalties due and owing

 

Leonid Zaltsberg

New Jersey

Pled guilty of filling a false tax return, and failing to file a report of FBAR. Failing to disclose the existence of his Swiss bank accounts.

Four years probation and one year of home confinement; a $3,000 fine on top of the $1.3 million paid in civil penalty

NO PRISON TIME

Harry Abrahamsen

New Jersey

Failing to file proper disclosures on his UBS accounts.

Sentencing scheduled for July 27, 2010 (no update)

 

Lucille Abrahamsen Jackson

New Jersey

Pled guilty to filing a false tax return and failing to file a FBAR

Sentencing scheduled for February 28, 2011

 

Peter Schober

Massachusetts

Pled guilty to filing false tax returns in which they failed to report their interest from foreign bank accounts.

 

 

Gregory Rudolph

Massachusetts

Allegedly filed false tax returns in which they failed to report their interest from foreign bank accounts.

 

 

 

Jeffrey Chatfield

California

Pled guilty to filing a false tax return

Sentenced to three years probation and fined about $96,000

 

Bernard Goldstein

California

Charged with one count of conspiracy to defraud the IRS; Five counts of filing false federal income tax returns; Three counts of failing to file FBAR

Has not yet entered in a plea

 

Andrew Silva

Virginia

Pled guilty to conspiring with a banker to hide a $250,000 account from the IRS

Sentenced to four months of home detention, fined $20,000, forfeited $211,200, and paid $16, 484 in back taxes

NO PRISON TIME

Robert Moran

Florida

Pled guilty to filing a false tax return

Sentenced to two months in prison and five months of home detention

 

Felix Mathis

Swiss Attorney

Charged with helping Silva hide his assets from the IRS and smuggling $235,000 in the US

Case Pending

 

Renzo Gadola

Florida

Pled guilty to tax fraud conspiracy

Sentencing scheduled for March 10, 2011

 

Raoul Weil

Florida

Conspiring with other executives, managers, and private bankers and clients of the banking firm to defraud the U.S.

Declared a Fugitive in January 2009

NO PRISON TIME

Hansruedi Shuemacher

Florida

Conspiring to assist wealthy American client conceal their assets by establishing sham offshore entities 

Declared a Fugitive in December 2009- Believed to be in Switzerland 

NO PRISON TIME

Matthias Rickenbach

Florida

Conspiring to assist wealthy American client conceal their assets by establishing sham offshore entities

Declared a Fugitive in December 2009- Believed to be in Switzerland

NO PRISON TIME



[1] FBAR – Foreign Bank or Financial Accounts