Whistleblower News: LDS Church Tithing IRS Whistleblower, Crypto Exchange Binance Tightens Money-Laundering Checks, U.S. Defense Contractor And Employees Sentenced For Procurement Fraud

Read whistleblower David Nielsen’s new sworn statement on the LDS Church’s handling of ‘tithing’

SALT LAKE TRIBUNE

After 20 months of withholding public comment, David Nielsen, whose December 2019 whistleblower complaint to the IRS set off a firestorm of debate about how The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints stashes and spends billions of dollars, is now speaking. read more »

Crypto exchange Binance tightens money-laundering checks as regulatory pressure mounts

REUTERS

Cryptocurrency exchange Binance said on Friday it would demand stricter background checks on customers to bolster efforts against money laundering, with immediate effect, a move that comes after weeks of pressure by regulators globally. read more »

U.S. Defense Contractor and Employees Sentenced for Procurement Fraud Scheme

DOJ

A Hampton-based U.S. defense contractor, its owner, and four of its employees were sentenced yesterday and today. The owner was sentenced to 58 months in prison, and his four employees were sentenced today to a combined 93 months years in prison, for engaging in an extensive procurement fraud scheme involving more than $7 million in government contracts targeting the U.S. Department of Defense and other federal government agencies. read more »