On March 27, 2015, a judge in the Eastern District of Virginia sentenced former Credit Suisse bankers Josef Doerig and Andreas Bachmann to five years of probation. Their sentences were the result of their cooperation with the U.S. government's global tax enforcement efforts. Some outlets are reporting that they were key cooperators against Credit Suisse in the lead-up to Credit Suisse's guilty plea.

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