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By David Voreacos - Tue Mar 27 04:00:01 GMT 2012

The transfers came amid criminal probes of at least 11 Swiss financial institutions, including Credit Suisse Group AG, with the tax division leading or assisting each prosecution.

The transfers came amid criminal probes of at least 11 Swiss financial institutions, including Credit Suisse Group AG, with the tax division leading or assisting each prosecution. Photographer: Gianluca Colla/Bloomberg

The U.S. Justice Department has lost almost 30 percent of its tax prosecutors in the past month, slowing a U.S. crackdown on offshore banks that enabled tax evasion, according to four people familiar with the matter.

Twenty-five of the 95 prosecutors in the tax division left headquarters in Washington for six-month details with U.S. attorneys around the country, and another three took permanent assignments, according to the four people, who declined to be identified because they arent authorized to speak publicly.

Many of the lawyers handled cases involving foreign banks or financial advisers suspected of helping U.S. clients cheat on taxes, the people said. The transfers came amid criminal probes of at least 11 Swiss financial institutions, including Credit Suisse (CSGN) Group AG, with the tax division leading or assisting each prosecution.

To move one-third of these people from that effort will significantly compromise such enforcement at the very time it is needed to deal with the huge amounts of offshore cases coming to the tax division, said Nathan Hochman, a former assistant attorney general who oversaw the tax division under President George W. Bush.

The prosecutors have significant experience, training and knowledge when it comes to the enforcement of tax laws pertaining to overseas accounts, said Hochman, now a partner at Bingham McCutchen LLP in Santa Monica, California.

The division also investigates identify theft, illegal tax shelters and other crimes, while approving every tax case filed by the 94 presidentially appointed U.S. attorneys serving the Justice Department around the country.

Offshore non-compliance by U.S. taxpayers remains a top priority for the Justice Departments Tax Division, said Charles Miller, a Justice Department spokesman. We will continue to pursue those cases vigorously.

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U.S. Tax-Evasion Probes Said to Slow as Prosecutors Transfer

By: Willy E. Arcilla

Now that Filipinos here and overseas have embraced the new DOT slogan Its More Fun in the Philippines, allow me to offer some comments and suggestions possibly to enhance the campaign.

First of all, I join the entire nationhood in congratulating DOT Sec. Hon. Ramon Jimenez (Mon J to friends) for his leadership role in guiding BBDO Guerreros Tony Harris to craft a very promising slogan.

At the same time, I wish to offer the following with the intention of helping strengthen its effectiveness.

Test it also vs. other competitors advertising campaigns and comparative costs of a vacation. Testing will validate, or show areas of improvement. If we worry about costs, let us remind ourselves of the words by educator Derek Bok, if you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

This begs a question, Do we really need to claim superiority vs. others to promote tourism? The Top 10 countries by destination are France (77M), USA (60M), China (56M), Spain (53M), Italy (44M), UK (28M), Turkey (27M), Germany (27M), Malaysia (25M) and Mexico (22M). I dont recall any one of them claiming superiority over the rest of the world in attracting those millions annually. Even our more successful neighboring countries never claimed More Amazing Thailand, More Incredible India, More Remarkable Indonesia, or Kingdom of More Wonders for Cambodia. In translating IMF PH into a domestic campaign, how can we now claim IMF Cebu vs. IMF Bohol? IMF Boracay vs. IMF Palawan? IMF Banawe vs. IMF Taal? without sparking regional conflict?

As the saying goes, theres no place like home, so no home nor country is better than ones own.

Could this be why IMF PH has also been a subject of cynical fun in executions showing kidnap victims under Vacations, hostage-taking under Pictorials, massacres under Elections, and even colonies of illegal settlers built on stilts by the coastline under Waterfront Properties as IMF PH?

Perhaps we can also ask in the research study even more fundamental questions like, Is FUN the only thing prospective foreign tourists are looking for in tourism? Is FUN all that Filipinos can offer foreign tourists? How do they/we define FUN? Is FUN all that we want PH to be known for? Are tourists willing to pay several thousand dollars to experience More Fun than other choices?

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It’s More THAN Fun in the Philippines: It’s the Republic of Happiness

PODGORICA, Montenegro--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

.ME Registry, the provider of the personalized domain name extensions and ccTLD for Montenegro is partnering with GoDaddy.com, the world's largest provider of Web hosting, domain name registrations and new SSL Certificates, to offer 10 eligible students $10,000 each for college tuition. This is the second annual .ME Scholarship Program for technology focused students and the March 30 deadline is fast-approaching.

We feel that there is nothing more important or valuable than education, said Predrag Lesic, Executive Director of the .ME Registry. We are excited to partner with Go Daddy again to offer the dot-ME Scholarship in order to help technology focused students get the resources they need to further their knowledge and skills.

"Go Daddy is stepping up to support the future of the technology industry," said Go Daddy CEO Warren Adelman. "By investing in these tech-driven students, we are investing in the future of Go Daddy. These scholarship recipients may well be our future employees the next generation of Go Daddy technologists.

Last years Go Daddy .ME Scholarship winners are close to completing their freshman year in top-ranked universities, nationwide including Emory University, the Georgia Institute of Technology and Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.

In the days leading up to the application deadline, the .ME Registry will feature interviews with several 2011 scholarship winners on the .ME blog. These students will share how winning a Go Daddy .ME Scholarship has contributed to their personal, technical and academic development.

To apply for the Go Daddy .ME Scholarship, applicants must be pursuing an undergraduate degree in fall 2012, have a minimum 3.0 GPA and have scored higher than 1000 on the SAT or 21+ on the ACT. Applicants need to submit two letters of recommendation and write a 500-word essay describing how the Internet or Internet technology has helped them in the course of their studies, and how they envision benefiting from it in the future.

The final submission date is Friday, March 30, 2012 at 11:59 p.m. (PT) Winners will be announced on or around April 25, 2012.

For more information about the Go Daddy .ME Scholarship program, please visit http://www.GoDaddy.com/MEscholarship.

To learn more about the .ME Registry, how to develop a .ME business idea through non-auction allocation of a .ME Domain, or to find out how to register a .ME domain, go to http://www.Domain.Me.

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Go Daddy & .ME Partner for 2nd Annual Scholarship Contest

26-03-2012 17:04 Sarge, Y-Dot AKA YD & D-Zed droppin' hot bars in a cypher.

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26-03-2012 18:55 Version 1 of my PC.TV 2012 TheStoryTeller.TV demo-reel. I will be inserting more content variety in the near future. I will be adding company logos in the right bottom corner representing the companies that I designed with related to the project on the screen.

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