Bank Leumi: Germany's Moral Conundrum

Under finance minister Norbert Walter-Borjans, Germany state North Rhine-Westphalia has been a voracious acquirer of Swiss bank data proffered by whistleblowers in recent years.  Four years ago, Borjans ordered investigators to buy data containing several dozen names of wealthy Jewish clients of Bank Leumi in Switzerland, Germany's Handelsblatt reported on…