Danske Bank Whistleblower Featured On 60 Minutes This Sunday

The premier U.S. investigative news show 60 Minutes will feature the captivating story of the Danske Bank money-laundering scandal and the man who exposed it, Howard Wilkinson. The program will air on CBS, Sunday, May 19, 2019, at 7/8c.

Wilkinson, a former employee at Danske Bank’s Estonia office, uncovered what some are calling the largest money-laundering scandal in world banking history, involving $234 billion. Wilkinson isrepresented by qui tam attorney Stephen M. Kohn.

The Danske Bank Scandal implicates some banks operating in the U.S., including Deutsche Bank which is reported to have received $150 billion of laundered money. U.S. authorities are reportedlyinvestigating transactions that Deutsche Bank, Bank of America, Citibank, and JPMorgan Chase handled for the small Danske Bank branch in Estonia. 

• Watch a preview of this program: How one man uncovered a money-laundering scheme involving $230 billion
• Learn more about the Danske Bank Scandal

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Stephen M. Kohn is a leading qui tam attorney who is a founding partner of Kohn, Kohn & Colapinto. The primary litigation focus of these whistleblower attorneys includes representing whistleblowers under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, qui tam reward laws, the False Claims Act, SEC whistleblower laws, and IRS whistleblowers. In 2012, the firm obtained the largest qui tam whistleblower reward given to a single individual in history ($104 million to UBS whistleblower Bradley Birkenfeld) and currently represents Danske Bank Whistleblower Howard Wilkinson. In 1988, Kohn helped found the National Whistleblower Center, where he currently serves, pro bono, as Chairman of the Board of Directors. His eighth book on whistleblower law is the highly respected The New Whistleblower's Handbook (Lyons Press, 2017).