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U.S. Increases Cases Against Tax Evaders

Sep. 27, 2009
U.S. officials have been sifting through about 250 names obtained through a settlement in February of a criminal investigation against the Swiss banking giant UBS.
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Snigdha Nandipati of San Diego, California watches confetti rain down as she wins the two-day Scripps National Spelling Bee championship, May 31, 2012, in National Harbor, Maryland. Nandipati successfully spelled the word .* guetapens *, meaning to lure or ambush. UPI/Mike Theiler