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Title: Media Blackout as Israel’s Largest Banks Pay over $1 Billion in Fines
Source: GlobalResearch
URL Source: https://www.globalresearch.ca/israe ... us-tax-evasion-schemes/5672335
Published: Mar 21, 2019
Author: Whitney Webb
Post Date: 2019-04-01 14:01:09 by X-15
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Keywords: Israel
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Similar revelations about other banks and offshore tax-evasion schemes — such as those contained in the Panama Papers — led to global protests and even the resignations of some world leaders

Israel’s three largest banks — Hapoalim Bank, Leumi Bank and Mizrahi Tefahot Bank — have all been ordered to pay record fines, which collectively are set to total over $1 billion, to the U.S. government after the banks were found to have actively colluded with thousands of wealthy Americans in massive tax-evasion schemes.

The scandal, though it has been reported on in Israeli media, has garnered little attention in the United States. The media black-out has been so surprising it was even directly mentioned by the Times of Israel, given that similar revelations about other banks and offshore tax-evasion schemes — such as those contained within the Panama Papers — led to global protests and even the resignations of some world leaders.

The settlements are the end result of a series of Department of Justice (DOJ) probes that were related to the DOJ’s 2007 investigation targeting UBS AG, Switzerland’s largest bank. The focus of the probe turned to Israel a few years later in 2011, when it was determined that the Swiss subsidiaries of several of Israel’s largest banks had actively aided Americans seeking to launder their money.

As the probes advanced, the DOJ found that the three banks — Israel’s largest when ranked by net income and total assets — had a history of collaborating with wealthy Americans in tax evasion schemes, not just in their Swiss subsidiaries but in Israel as well. Most of those wealthy Americans were Jewish Americans or dual U.S.-Israeli citizens who hid their U.S. citizenship from the Israeli banks.

A year after the probes into Leumi, Hapoalim and Mizrahi Tefahot were made public, the U.S. State Department notably listed Israel as a “major money laundering country… whose financial institutions engage in currency transactions involving significant amounts of proceeds from international narcotics trafficking … or other serious crime.”

Settlements reached and pending

Bank Leumi was the first to admit to wrongdoing and reached a deferred prosecution agreement with the DOJ in 2014 that eventually resulted in the bank paying $400 million in fines to the U.S. government and the State of New York in order to avoid prosecution. According to the DOJ, the agreement marked “the first time an Israeli bank has admitted to such criminal conduct, which spanned over a 10 year period.”

The investigations into the other two banks, Mizrahi Tefahot and Hapoalim, continued until just last Wednesday, when Mizrahi Tefahot agreed to pay $195 million in fines for “conspiring” with U.S. clients to avoid taxes. Like Leumi Bank, Mizrahi Tefahot admitted its guilt.

A settlement with Hapoalim Bank, Israel’s largest bank, has yet to be reached. The bank had set aside $343 million for a potential settlement as of last February, though that figure has since ballooned to $616 million as of this week. Hapoalim CEO Arik Pinto told reporters on Monday that he “really hopes” that the DOJ probe will be resolved by the end of the year, a sentiment likely motivated by the fact that the probe has weighed on the bank’s profit performance. Subscribe to *The hook-nosed Jew*

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Media Blackout as Israel’s Largest Banks Pay over $1 Billion in Fines

These guys think they are such hot shots trying to evade the machinations of the IRS.

If they knew the absolute truth of the matter, they would know the average U.S. citizen living and working in the United States does not owe the Federal Income Tax. It simply does not apply. But the IRS collects it, and puts liens and levies on property and even seizes properties.

I had 2 liens on file in a county I lived in when I was making some tall cash driving trucks. I had these credit repairs lawyers from Salt Lake City, Lexington Law, challenge the IRS. The IRS could not prove I owed the tax and were forced to withdraw the liens.

My Credit Karma used to say "2" for public filings. Now it says "0". The proof is in the pudding. ;)

"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke

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