The Whistleblower who Walked Away with Over 100 Million Dollars

The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena

Spartan Races

Fitness, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, 792700

4.7 • 870 Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

He went to the DOJ. He testified to congress. He went to the IRS. Instead of a "thank you," they threw him in jail! But that wasn't the end of the story. Next, the US Government awarded Bradley C Birkenfeld with over 100 million dollars. In fact, he holds the Guinness World Record for the largest payout by a government to a single individual! Sounds too crazy to be true? Joe De Sena interviewed Birkenfeld, author of "Lucifer's Banker," back in September of 2019. We just dug up the interview for you.

What do you think? Was he right to do what he did? Is he right about the reason he went to jail?

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Host: Joe De Sena

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0:00.0	You've testified in front of the IRS, Congress, Senate, firefighters, you name it, nobody's doing anything. Now what?
0:08.0	So I knew going into the DOJ was a disaster because by doing that what it ultimately said was these guys are now putting me on the radar and that's fine I knew what I had done that's why I said I said
0:20.3	Who would ask for immunity if you had done nothing wrong?
0:23.2	Right. What's the whole purpose of that? The purpose is make sure that you actually
0:27.7	understand that you're trying to come forward and be correct. I quit my job, I
0:31.6	complained internally, quit my job. then went to the board of directors, then came to my own government.
0:37.0	What was I hiding?
0:38.0	I mean the DOJ lied.
0:40.0	He said, oh he was hiding.
0:41.0	Hide what? In headquarters at DOJ in Washington?
0:43.2	You called them. I called them. They didn't even know I existed.
0:48.0	SEC. IRS. U.S. Senate. So they didn't want this to come out they this is like a bad dream
0:56.8	Welcome to the Spartan up podcast with Joe descenter and CEO of Spartan race
1:03.0	We are talking about overcoming obstacles.
1:06.0	The same way we teach people to get over obstacles on the course,
1:12.0	we will teach you here on a
1:13.6	Spartan Up podcast to get over obstacles in your mind. I've got a really
1:20.2	interesting one for you today. This was shot pre-Covid. We found this in the
1:24.4	basement with a bunch of dust on. It was an unbelievable interview. Bradley Birkenfeld. This guy gets
1:29.8	thrown in jail by the Department of Justice, right?
1:32.9	Comes out, writes a book, makes hundreds of millions of dollars.
1:36.4	You gotta hear a story, it is unbelievable.
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