Bradley Birkenfeld, a former banker and employee of UBS, received a monetary award in the amount of $104 million from the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) for revealing information relating to UBS’s practice of advising and assisting its clients on how to shield their assets from the IRS – a clear…
WJB Capital Group Inc. (“WJB Capital”), a privately-held broker-dealer, stopped trading in its New York, Boston, Denver and San Francisco offices when it ceased operations in January 2012. Recently, WJB Capital, and two of its executives, settled allegations raised by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (“FINRA”) that the firm…