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U.S. Given A Look at Swiss Bank Accounts

 
The U.S. government has chipped new holes in the secrecy of Swiss bank accounts, obtaining the names of American clients of the banking giant UBS as part of an investigation into the use of foreign banks to evade taxes. (link)

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