The results are in for the first U.S citizen to be tried in a UBS offshore banking case. Steven Rubinstein – an accountant from Florida – was ordered to pay a $40,000 criminal fine and sentenced to 3 years of probation after pleading guilty in court.
The sentence was lighter than the recommendation of prosecutors, who sought a one-year prison term for Rubinstein. He faced a possible sentence of 18 to 24 months under advisory sentencing guidelines.
Rubinstein was sentenced in a Florida federal court for filing a false tax return. Prosecutors charged him in April and he pleaded guilty in June.
Prosecutors said Rubinstein communicated with UBS bankers from 2001 to 2008 about the purchase and sale of securities worth more than 4.5 million Swiss Francs. They also said Rubinstein repatriated roughly $7 million into the U.S. to buy property and build a home in Boca Raton, Fla.