ah ah sir. ah hello, you're watching the whistleblowers and i'm john curiosity. today we're going to tell you about one of the most important whistleblowers in the world that you probably never heard of. on today's episode, we speak to the $1000000000.00 man. 2 2 2 2 2 2 we want to tell you about a banking whistleblower who has had a greater impact on the international financial system than anybody else in the world. bradley berkin felt was a long time banker and season financial expert for

a series of some of the biggest and most important banks in switzerland. that is, until he saw that international law was being broken. bred berkin tell then brought down not just money laundering and income tax evasion in swiss banks. he brought down money laundering an income tax evasion, period. it's because of brad burke and felt that the wealthiest people in the world can no longer avoid paying the taxes that the rest of us must pay by hiding their money in number accounts and the world's financial centers. and he paid for that public service with his freedom. when this was finally over, berkin felt published a memoir of his experience called lucifer's banker. the book has already been translated into more than a dozen languages and has become an international best seller. the accompanying website contains the primary source documentation about the case released to the public by wikileaks, what it shows is a pattern of corruption and deceit among officials in both the u. s. and swiss

governments and the length to which they went to protect the rich and famous from prosecution. we now when a bring in the guest of the hour, brad berkin felt. so we're going to start brad by talking about how you got into this position in the 1st place, how you became a whistleblower. we'll start off with this with your pre whistle blowing life. you had a good life. you were a successful international banker. you would work for some of the most important banks in the world. you were making plenty of money. but then you saw something that bothered you and you decided to do something about it. walk us through how that happened. certainly. well i, i worked in switzerland in the plaza banking sector with credit suisse, barclays, and you? yes. and my last employer, u b. s, i was a director there, cheapest switzerland. and what we were doing were, were covering the u. s. market out of switzerland. so we had offices, im gonna geneva and zurich, and we would travel every quarter to united states see existing and potential

clients. anyways, what would happen is, is the bank would promote this, obviously to bring in more money to invest and to have net money. so over time, what happened was we didn't switch was totally legal. we were always switch law. i was a resident there, i had a work permit there. and what they had done was essentially known that what we were doing was a gray area mean traveling to us because we weren't license as you see, license to give investment advice and so forth. so mysteriously they slipped in a 3 page document to our internet. the internal computer system and my colleague brought it to my attention one day and i was a bit flustered by it because it's it, look, i'm very busy. well, what you have to show me is why it's important. in this 3 page document, we were never told about it, and we will never change on it, which is a big no, no. so anyways, i will show me where you got this doctor. i've never seen this and he showed it to

me on the internet. and i said go back to desk, i'll talk to you later. and i printed it off twice. and i read it. and it was shocking because essentially what this we page document said was what we were doing was not ok. and you were breaking the law. so really what the bank was trying to do with being greedy have to do this business, but putting all the risk on us and saying, you know, you've got to do this. and obviously, you know, the levels you have to meet for your bonus and promotion all that they're promoting to bring in more money. so anyways, this document that's actually contradicted everything they would tell us to do. so i went to my boss and i said, well, what the hell is this is a big deal. this is a very important matter. you're putting everybody at rest and this is not right. and everyone else on the desk with swiss are a chip. so i thought was happening,

it was a c, y, cover your ass for the right. so we got caught. if we got caught, they would have blended on. i said, well, you read the memo, well, you have a train decide you didn't tell us about it. and you secretly slipped it in the internet and you always say you have to know everything on the internet. well, so i made a big to do about it and i said, ok, you're going to play that game. so i immediately as a sure, as a director of the bank, i sent it to the head of my legal department and they said to have my compliance department to different areas. and so i need an answer, documents that e mail i sent and then printed it off and sent it also by inter office mail. so you can't claim you didn't get it. well, i did that for one month. and there was no answer which is very bizarre. as a director of the bank, you always go to legal compliance and try get an answer if you have a question. so then i sent it the following, no answer. so and sent it by inter office as well. so from me i knew what was

happening. it was sort of a set up and i saw what the bank was going to do. so i sort of check, made them and said ok, i'm just are taking documents out of the bank. i wasn't stealing documents, i took documents that were given to. so that's my property, everything from powerpoint presentations to accounting, phone records of bankers. everything that you could piece and puzzled together to show what i was saying was correct. and then the 3rd month i sent it again and there was no answer. so then a week or 2 later i came in and i resigned and they said, well, why resigning as a, please don't play that game with me. you know exactly what's going on here. and i, one of the answers, 3 page document. this is where you'll never get an answer. i said, well, i guess again, you will get an answer and i'll make sure. so what happened was, i resigned and actually i then complained to the board of directors at the back, i sent it by certified mail to every member of you, be

a sort of directors and zurich and say, now to your problem you're, you've been informed, you know, this is wrong, and i'm holding you accountable. and that cause such a nuclear bomb in the batch. everyone was panicking now at this point, i'm outside the bad because i believe the bank and they don't want you to work there anymore when you resign. well, and you're still being paid in switzerland, called gardening, as if you would sit in your garden guard, but i was paid for 6 months and i did this quite quickly. knowing that i had all the facts. i had my lawyer in geneva and he said, yeah, you can't work under these conditions. so they called an investigation and they asked me to help them. so i said, you need me to help you tell you how you're breaking the law. wonderful. so i met with them with my attorney, and i gave them some correct information on some incorrect information just to test . then about a week and a half later i met with some of my colleagues who was to work at the bank,

a bar or something. and i said when they talk about and all the things i mentioned, they didn't, they didn't investigate it. so what do you mean? this is not in talk about that, but that's what i told them. so obviously this was another cover up even though it was put right under their noses. so that's when i went and picked up and i went to u. s. government hoping that my own government would actually embrace me with the most significant, unprecedented tax scandal in the world. and that is what you did. you went to the us treasury department, you performed what many of us believe was a national service by reporting this evidence of waste, fraud, abuse and illegality. but then the u. s. justice department came after you. how did that happen? what was going through your mind at the time? well, here's the problem. i think for most of your listeners, if they don't understand what's the point it's, it's a real education and what a whistle blowers like yourself on went through meaning you're trying to do the

right thing when you see something wrong. i mean, that's a human trait. and essentially what i was trying to say was i tried to fix the problem internally. i wasn't fired, i quit, and then i then continued it with the board of directors and then and so forth. so by going to my government, i think it will, law enforcement certainly going to be interested in this and so well, the opposite was true. i was a little bit naive in that sense. meaning one, why didn't they uncover? where was the d o j for the last 2 years? that's the 1st question. the 2nd question is, as a whistleblower, they can't take the credit. and the point being that maybe they want to still continue because some of their very rich donors, not just d. okay, but the administration at the time i would want wouldn't want their rich and powerful friends expose and i'm thinking of myself, wait a minute. this is crazy. so you know it's going on. here's a guy that comes in, it gives you the keys to the kingdom and you attack him. and so i 1st,

i couldn't find a law firm in washington that wasn't conflict because you had them all over it. and the 2nd thing was i had to go with a 2nd rate firm. unfortunately, i didn't think the u. s. was going to be my problem. i thought the swiss government, or this was banks and even the us would be the problem. so that's really where the crux was and i came in in good faith to drive to the right thing and they kept yelling at me and there were hostile towards me at the very beginning. and i said, look, i can't give you names of clients until you give me a subpoena. so we're not going to give you immunity. i want to give you a subpoena. i said, well, you're not getting the names and we are going to fix the cost in deal headquarters . i'll never forget it. and what really made me wonder was i said now i'm really in this net deep, but i still, i held my ground as you know, i'm gonna hold firm on this. and ironically later, once the investigations in soho started in senate and u. b. s is called to testify,

they get the same answer. we can't give you the names until we change the laws and switzerland and parliament in zurich had to change the law and order for them to give up the names of u. s. government. so what's different about what i said, these are the what they said, nothing same answer because you would go to jail for breaking bank secrecy where i live. so really what was going on here was the d o. j was furious and hate was the war. they're very hostile towards them. we don't like them, they don't get the credit. as i said before, and i ultimately want us senate, where they gave me a subpoena, which gave me the ability to give up the names. so i met with the senate for 10 out, i met with the i arrest many hours. i met with the a c c, but the da hated, that's why they couldn't compartmentalize it and they couldn't take credit. so what do they do? all this go attack this guy, make him the bad guy just like you don't make one guy. the bad guy, even though all these other bad actors were out there,

my boss is able to for 1020 years and had been doing this. and i was the one about the church come forward and say no, this is wrong. oh, that's really the essence of how the d o j. and as we even see today in washington, the d. o k is infested with corrupt people who are incompetent and complicit and criminally involved. brad, what was the government's goal? do you think in going after you rather than the people who had actually been breaking the law and were any of the tax beaters ever prosecuted? yes, the taxes are some of them were very few and there's something called an offshore voluntary disclosure program. and with that, you're allowed to come in and come and honestly tell them about your account and pay, say 30 percent on the high watermark. if your chance, let's just city to the 10 year period and the say it was $10000000.00. so you would say you're going to pay 30 percent of $10000000.00. even though today we will keep you anonymous. you won't go to jail in the store. but the problem was they wanted

to send a message, all the 19000 millionaires and billionaires to come under that program because we got this bag. so you didn't get me. i came to you, you never hear the noise just so that's the real row. the 2nd thing here is some of the clients i gave to them, which they're not allowed to come on to the offshore voluntary disclosure program. people like leonard lauder jack manny, kevin costner, all these people have never been prosecuted. why? so these people and many others were given the secret anonymity and be able to walk free because the deal to didn't want to give me credit for that. so you can see some loss for some people, some loss for others. it's a double system and it's, as you've seen today in washington, d. j is to close it in criminality. so my whole point here was ok, you're going to make one guy, the bad guy,

but yet you're not doing your job and indict 900000 people in the head of the ira stated in the us senate under oath that if we have name or an ongoing investigation, you're not allowed to come into the program. well then don't. how have your revelations change the banking industry? i imagine there have been big changes. well, quite frankly, unfortunately, the senate doesn't understand international finance and the laws the past, which is that for instance, was the disaster. it is essentially was put in place because of me. and what happens with that is it just made foreign banks report back to united states, everything about an american plan, whether it's hong kong sell their switzerland or wherever. the problem here is. so what i did was so unprecedented in historic, they change the treaties in switzerland, they changed the laws, they actually went to parliament and had to change the law, which broke bank secrecy. it's over. and then hillary clinton gotten bought the

secretary of state get that later where she was working on settling this case. but there's another was a war by the name of julian assange who came up with a very critical document which is on my website, lucifer's dot com. and that document which we can the table to see a secret table which i showed you, john, you've seen it before. and this cable essentially said between hillary clinton, her counterpart in switzerland, 3 times in this memo, they said we need a political solution. yes, case. nobody was ever supposed to see this document, but thanks to julian associates out there. but more importantly, what they did was they closed down a small company operating in i ran out of switzerland and they took 2 chinese wiggers from guantanamo bay and settled them in switzerland to settle the u. b. s. tack scandal. so what, what is the end result here? what's the message?

350000000 americans got screwed by the obama administration. that's a fact why because they allowed the system to be corrupted so they can protect their rich lead friends and this you some other smokescreen to settle this case and bury it under the rug. and that's why they put me in jail to try and shut me up. but the opposite happened, and i did, i wrote my book and did a website and i lecture and that's essentially what i'm trying to do even with you now. all right, brad, hang right there. we'll be back with brad broke and fell right after the break. when we come back, we talked to brad burke and felt about how his attorney's continued to fight for him. after you went to prison. you've been watching the whistle blowers. 2 2 2 for

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wow, that is right in the heart of where meaning we're culture, where you know would be the same if you fire bomb the vatican, i hope that this country recognizes native american, ceremonious cerebral ceremonial grounds sacred sites because that's where our hardy said we belong to mother earth. we are doing our own mother. we belong to watch for me. ah. 2 2 2 i'm john, curiosity, and this is the whistleblowers. we've been talking with bradley burke and felt a long time banker and seasoned financial expert who brought down money laundering and income tax evasion. bradley berkin told story takes

a very strange twist. we've already talked to him about his arrest and why he was arrested. he had gone to the treasury department to report evidence of illegality. and then the entire weight of the u. s. government seemed to fall on his head. why did that happen? well, thanks to wiki leaks, we now know why that happened. you see behind the scenes while brad was making his revelations to the u. s. department of the treasury, hillary clinton, when she was secretary of state, was active at the same time. the united states had several prisoners of weaker origin chinese muslims. they were housed at guantanamo at the notorious u. s. prison camp there and they needed to be resettled. while the governments of albania and fiji agreed to take 2 weaker is each. there were still 2 that needed to find somewhere to go, and no country wanted them. so hillary clinton called the president of switzerland

and said, we want you to take these 2 weeks hours. the president of switzerland said that the country was not interested in taking any wiggers or any other people from guantanamo. this discussion went back and forth for several months until finally hillary clinton sent a cable to the president of switzerland through the u. s. embassy in that country, and she said, we really want you to take these 2 weeks. ours, the president of switzerland then came back and said, we'll take the 2 weeks. if you arrest bradley burke and failed to which hillary clinton said, done. and that's exactly what happened, an order went from the state department, specifically from the office of the secretary of state, herself to the department of justice saying, arrest bradley burke and felt an american citizen and charge him with a crime. any crime. it doesn't matter what kind of crime, bradley berkin felt had brought down money laundering and tax evasion at every bank

in switzerland. he was to pay for that with his own freedom. it wasn't because he had done anything wrong. in fact, he had done a great service for the u. s. government. it was because hillary clinton needed a favor and that favor was to take to chinese muslims and resettle them in switzerland. it's a sad story, but that's how the world works. and sometimes the little guy gets caught up in the, in the plans of the big guys. that's what happened in this case. bradley berkin felt last 3 years of his life to prison. and it was because hillary clinton wanted him to but don't worry, things got better. now we want to bring back bradley berkin failed, who is also the author of the book lucifer's banker, which is a memoir of his experiences being jailed for whistle blowing on some of the biggest banks in the world read when you were charged and convicted and sentenced. to to

prison, you didn't just sit back and take it, you went to prison, but your attorney's continued to fight for you. and they filed a whistle blower, reward claim on your behalf. that ended up putting you in the guiness book of world records. how did that happen? well, that's correct, and a lot of people assume wrongly that i did this for the money and that's totally incorrect when i 1st started was going back in 2005 and signed by the law hadn't been passed yet. so longer passed in december, 2006 when i was long on the bank. so how could i have know that there was some law coming down later in the u. s. senate? so that's very important for your audience to understand. but what had happened was they said, you were given up so much information that the i arrest was a warning office, felt compelled under more than i was entitled to an award by the unprecedented information which you can go on to my website and see the letter they wrote about

it, they said the information i gave was so incredible. we never would have been able to one cover it. and the prosecutor even said in front of the judge and my son, see if i hadn't come into the d o j. this should still be going on, so why you attacking me and putting me in jail? this was the rich and powerful of the that got to the top people and the obama administration. obama himself, eric holder who represented you b as in private practice and human clinton will had her donors protected, said make this guy pay. and so i saw the hand right on the wall, but ultimately i got the largest was a blowing award. and for that, i was put in the guinness book of world records, which they had to create a whole new section under whistle going because of me, which i'm very proud of. brad over the past decade, you've helped a lot of whistleblowers to stay on their feet and you're always there to provide advice, encouragement, even legal referrals. i know that you're interested in

a more formal way to help and to encourage whistleblowers. so tell us about your plans for the future. well, that's correct. i do go out of my way to help others because i know how difficult it is for me, harassment, intimidation, retaliation and so forth. and was of was have a lot of courage to come forward. and there's not many people supporting that you're on an island by yourself. and i think you know what exactly what, oh yes. you know this year your fresh out of friends, as we say is whistle or but what we need is was the boys to make it a better society. and what i said to myself is my case was so historic and it transformed the trillion literally trillion dollar industry. and we're still feeling the effects today. with the d. o. j 5100 respects. we brought back over $25000000.00 to the us treasury and back to america. and that money gets invested tax perpetuity, which means it's multiples of billions that i said us taxpayer and he was

government. and so what i need to do is to get this message out to every person who will listen and who will be rational and that to say, why don't you embrace this man? he is an extension of law enforcement. he had the courage to change such an industry, and this was overseas, this wasn't in america, this was overseas money that they could never get to. so now i help people, as you rightly say, when i get them. sometimes lawyers like it financial support gets emotional support . i also want to get the media involved, or i think it's necessary. and this is what we try to do and ultimately all be open in our office in, in europe to help your p whistleblowers file claims in the united states that are us central bradley burke and felt thanks so much for joining us. that's all we have for you today. i'm john q reaku and this has been whistleblowers.

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