U.S. Indicts Swiss Attorney for Conspiring with U.S. Persons to Evade U.S. Taxes

The United States indicted a Swiss banker, Hansruedi Schumacher, and a Swiss attorney, Matthias Rickenbach, for conspiring to defraud the U.S. (18 USC 371), on August 20, 2009, one day after the settlement in the UBS case was announced by the U.S. and Swiss Governments and UBS. The U.S. had previously indicted Raoul Weil, Head of Wealth Management at UBS...(more)