The IRS declined to respond to questions from The Daily Wire including how much Operation Atlantis cost and what bank customers, if any, were ultimately charged or convicted of crimes. It also did not say whether any investigation was undertaken into who leaked the investigation to the media, or why Lee traveled to Puerto Rico and discussed the crimes authorities
"believed" EPB to have committed despite having no evidence to charge him.
Three months after the press conference, the bank's president Mark Anderson, who ran the bank for Schiff, died of a heart attack at the age of 64.
To this day, the J5 prominently advertises its
"globally coordinated day of action" into the bank
"whose products and services are believed to be facilitating money laundering and tax evasion for customers across the globe" as a
"success." In fact, it is the only example of an enforcement action on its list of
"Tax Enforcement Successes."
Schiff's brother, Andrew, said that tax authorities wanted revenge for their father, but did no favors for their cause by bungling an investigation that they endlessly hyped up.
"You either come with an indictment or you shut your mouth," he said.
"Because otherwise the government can destroy anyone they want."
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