Bradley Charles Birkenfeld was born on February 26,1965 and is an American private banker, convicted felon, and whistleblower.
11 Facts About Bradley Birkenfeld
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Bradley Birkenfeld was born on February 26,1965, in Brookline, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston.
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Bradley Birkenfeld attended Thayer Academy, a prep school, and graduated from Norwich University in Vermont in 1988.
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Bradley Birkenfeld is Jewish; his paternal grandfather Max immigrated to the United States from Romania in 1922.
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Bradley Birkenfeld obtained a master's degree at the American Graduate School of Business in La Tour-de-Peilz, Switzerland.
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Bradley Birkenfeld says that he turned down an offer to join the FBI after the incident, but that claim has been disputed.
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In October 2001, Bradley Birkenfeld began working at UBS in Geneva, Switzerland, again as a private banker offering wealth management services.
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However, because he did not provide full and complete information to US authorities, Bradley Birkenfeld was arrested in Boston on 7 May 2008 when he deplaned from Switzerland arraigned at the US District Court, Southern District of Florida on 13 May Bradley Birkenfeld resigned his position with Union Charter on 3 June 2008 after agreeing to plead guilty to not disclosing accurate information.
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Bradley Birkenfeld served his time at the Schuylkill County Federal Correctional Institution from January 2010 to August 2012, approximately 31 months.
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Bradley Birkenfeld is viewed as a criminal and a "traitor" by some members of the Swiss public and banking community as he broke the country's banking secrecy laws.
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In January 2015, Bradley Birkenfeld was subpoenaed by a French magistrate investigating the abetting of tax evasion and tax fraud by French citizens at UBS.