Bankster Seeks Billions as Whistle-Blower

Birkenfeld, Ex-UBS Banker, Seeks Billions as Whistle-Blower:
"Bradley C. Birkenfeld was sentenced to 40 months in prison for helping rich Americans dodge their taxes. Now he is hoping for a bit more — a few billion dollars more.
Mr. Birkenfeld, a former private banker at the Swiss bank UBS, won the enmity of his peers by violating the omerta of Swiss banking: He divulged the tax evasion secrets of UBS, the world’s largest bank by assets, and its well-heeled American clients. As part of a deal with federal prosecutors, he admitted to, among other things, helping to smuggle diamonds in a tube of toothpaste.
Now, as thousands of wealthy Americans seek amnesty for keeping illicit, offshore bank accounts, Mr. Birkenfeld and his lawyers hope to use a new federal whistle-blower law to claim a multibillion-dollar reward from the American government. If they succeed — and legal experts say the odds are pretty good — it would be the largest reward of its kind."

Anybody that uses a weapon to hold up a bank is a fool, this article tells you why and how to do it the right way. Just steal with a pen or computer like the Banksters and Politicians do, and then hire a lawyer to get rewarded by the law.
Mr. Birkenfeld reminds me of that old joke about the ultimate case of chutzpah: A man is on trial for killing his parents for their money, and then throws himself on the mercy of the court because he's an orphan.
It's times like this when I truly think the world has gone mad.