work. Indeed, under federal laws, whistle-blowers can qualify for multimillion-dollar bounties for exposing financial malfeasance. The whistle-blower Bradley Birkenfeld, for example, after he himself was paroled from prison in 2012, received an award of $104 million for providing data that exposed illicit tax shelter

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