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The Government Sent This Whistleblower to Jail. Then They Awarded Him $100 Million

By The Spartan Editors
· December 31, 2020
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He went to the Department of Justice. He testified before Congress. He went to the IRS. And instead of a "thank you," they threw him in jail.

But that wasn't the end of the story.

The United States proceeded to award banker Bradley Birkenfeld over $100 million. In fact, he holds the Guinness World Record for the largest payout by a government to a single individual.

On this episode of the Spartan Up! podcast, Birkenfeld — the author of Lucifer's Banker: The Untold Story of How I Destroyed Swiss Bank Secrecy — tells Spartan founder and CEO Joe De Sena his side of the story. 

Listen to the podcast in its entirety below.



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