The Internal Revenue Service announced Wednesday that it paid out $125 million to whistleblowers in the 2012 fiscal year, an apparent record, up from just $8 million last year. The boom was driven largely by one man: Bradley Birkenfeld, a former banker at UBS who provided information on the firm’s vast business of helping wealthy Americans hide their assets abroad and received a record $104 million reward for his efforts.
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