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...several hundred members of the LGT banking group who were suspected of evading taxes by putting their money in bank accounts in Liechtenstein. That deal reportedly helped the government recover $250 million in lost revenue by the end of last year. One of the suspects, Klaus Zumwinkel, the former head of Deutsche Post, was convicted of tax evasion and received a two-year suspended prison sentence and a fine of $1.4 million. "We can't do the opposite now of what we did two years ago," Schaüble said in an interview with ZDF public television on Monday night...
...head of the parliamentary legal affairs committee, Siegfried Kauder, a member of Merkel's Christian Democratic Union Party, urged her to do the latter, saying the data may not even be admissible in court because of the manner in which it was obtained. Other officials and experts warned that the government would be sending the wrong message by striking such a shady deal. "The German rule of law obliges the state to tax people equally, but the state should also not deal with criminals," Moris Lehner, a professor of international law at Munich's Ludwig Maximilian University, tells TIME...
...chairman of the Social Democratic Party, told the paper Hamburger Abendblatt. The German police union was equally adamant that moral concerns should be pushed aside. "The police work with criminals on a daily basis - we have paid informers who help us uncover drug trafficking or other crimes," Konrad Freiberg, head of the union, tells TIME. "Particularly with tax fraud, you'd never be able to get at these people otherwise...
Having spent the past three seasons alongside her husband, Harvard head coach Ray Leone, Tracey Leone helped revive a struggling Crimson soccer program into a back-to-back Ivy League champion...
...first American to win a World Championship as both a player and a head coach, Leone recently completed her 18th year of coaching experience at both the international and collegiate levels. A three-time national champion athlete at North Carolina, Leone has coached Clemson and Arizona State as well as the U.S. National Team...