"The report also indicates that in fiscal year 2013 alone, the IRS closed more than 250 whistleblower claims because there were insufficient resources to investigate or the statute of limitations was close to running out," wrote attorney Erika Kelton, of the whistleblower law firm Phillips & Coh
Date: Apr 06, 2014
Category: Business
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Wall Street tipster gets rich off IRS whistleblower program
1 million in 2011 after providing information years previously on tax shelters set up by Wall Street banks for the infamous energy firm Enron. He also scored at least $1 million in an additional case, the details of which he does not want disclosed, Phillips & Cohen lawyer Erika Kelton said.
Date: Oct 04, 2012
Category: Business
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UBS Whistle-Blower Birkenfeld Secures IRS Award, Lawyers Say
Its an enormous reward for incredibly significant information, said Erika Kelton, a whistle-blower attorney at Phillips & Cohen LLP in Washington. The government acknowledged that without him or someone in his position, offshore evasion at UBS would still likely be going on.
Since the law was passed in July of 2010, lawyers have been busy filing cases with the SEC, says Erika Kelton, an attorney with the firm Phillips & Cohen. We are seeing significant frauds directed at or near the top of the organization, Kelton said, frauds that in some cases involving prominen