Voluntary Disclosures of Foreign Financial Account and Related Matters After OVDI 2011 (9/20/11)

The IRS has posted contact information for persons desiring to make noisy voluntary disclosures. See Voluntary Disclosure Contacts in IRS Criminal Investigation, here. The notice states:

Tax professionals or individuals who want to make a voluntary disclosure not covered by the 2011 Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Initiative, may contact an IRS criminal investigator at the numbers below.

I speculate that

1. As in the two programs (OVDP 2009 and OVDI 2011) the IRS will discourage quiet disclosures of foreign financial institution accounts.  Will the IRS and DOJ Tax will pick off one or two or more where the quiet is not quite up to snuff and prosecute?  (I can't define the up to snuff standard; it is like pornography -- you will know it when you see it and good practitioners will prevent their clients from submitting not up to snuff quiet disclosures.)
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