
Washington Post
Tax cheats have brazenly hidden billions of dollars in offshore bank accounts for decades, but this ruse has become harder to pull off thanks to John McDougal, a special trial attorney at the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
McDougal and his IRS team have recovered tens of millions of dollars for the government in recent years, breaking down a veil of secrecy that has long cloaked the identities of offshore account holders. Offshore tax evasion, a 2008 Senate report said, costs the U.S. Treasury $100 billion per year.
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