tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1519969502186924526.post3913472287847708379..comments2023-10-24T08:00:53.865-05:00Comments on Federal Tax Crimes: New Swiss Enabler Indictments - Bankers Related to UBS and, Allegedly, Wegelin (1/3/12)Jack Townsendhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14469823736335455874noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1519969502186924526.post-81143037066544465792012-01-04T13:48:13.219-06:002012-01-04T13:48:13.219-06:00I've been reading this blog for a long time, a...I've been reading this blog for a long time, and don't see how these guys are criminally culpable.<br /><br />If a foreign citizen visits New York and opens an American bank account (or a corporation, etc), is the American banker criminally culpable in the country where the depositor resides?<br /><br />Yet this is what this indictment implies.M9noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1519969502186924526.post-66020434171538499052012-01-04T04:20:32.650-06:002012-01-04T04:20:32.650-06:00Every indictment of a private banker who is in Swi...Every indictment of a private banker who is in Switzerland is utterly meaningless and mere showboating by the Department of Justice (not to mention a waste of taxpayer dollars).<br /><br />These bankers, who are Swiss citizens, live and work in Switzerland and will never come to the United States because Switzerland does not extradite Swiss citizens for tax offenses.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com