NPR Story 5:18 am Wed September 12, 2012  IRS Awards $104
Million To Whistle-Blower  Originally published on Wed September
12, 2012 9:28 pm    After a scandal, somebody finally gets rich
for doing the right thing. It's NPR's business news.  A former
banker, Bradley Birkenfeld, has just been awarded $104 million
by the IRS. That is believed to be the largest amount ever paid
to an individual whistle-blower. Birkenfeld told the IRS how a
Swiss bank was helping thousands of Americans evade taxes, and
was then thrown in jail.   NPR's Wendy Kaufman has more.  WENDY
KAUFMAN, BYLINE: Birkenfeld, now in late 40s, worked for the
giant Swiss bank UBS, and in 2007, he provided U.S. officials
with extraordinary information about Swiss bank accounts and how
they worked.  STEPHEN KOHN: Birkenfeld was from the inside of
this secret system that no one had ever been able to crack.
KAUFMAN: That's Birkenfeld's lawyer Stephen Kohn of the National
Whistleblowers Center. He says his client provided detailed
information about how