Market Wire (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
MONTREAL, QUEBEC (MARKET WIRE) Optimal Group Inc. (NASDAQ: OPMR) today announced that it has entered into a non-prosecution agreement with the Office of the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York.
MoreMonmouthMusings (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
... was rising. The assault of ads about the loan to a friend/employee, the driving record, deferred prosecution agreements (which was actually used up by the DGA during the primary) would have been more effective for Corzine if they had been released in September and October, instead of in August. By election day voters considered them unfair attacks, even though they were successful...
Irrefutable Proof ICTY Is Corrupt (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
... Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative law called on Christie to testify about “deferred prosecution agreements,” through which prosecutors allow corporations under investigation to avoid charges if they hire special monitors to revamp operations. Christie oversaw seven of those agreements as New Jersey’s top federal prosecutor, and several of the deals have become political...
Blue Jersey: Covering NJ like a rug (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
... monitor the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey in Dec. 2005 as part of a deferred prosecution agreement after the institution admitted to committing Medicare fraud. Christie considers Stern a "mentor," according to the New York Times. That would be $3 million of taxpayer dollars, which is an often overlooked fact when talking about these no-bid contracts....
Houston's Clear Thinkers (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
... charges were brought against them. In contrast, KPMG, Gene Foster, and Andrew Fastow secured plea agreements or deferred prosecution agreements with reduced sentences and finite results. As one might imagine, the latter group's sentences or fines were significantly below those of the individuals and entities that proceeded to trial. The pronounced gap between those risking...
AFL-CIO Weblog (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
... as U.S. Attorney, through potential violations of spending limits on travel and hotels, deferred prosecution agreements , the use of his position to get out of driving violations , a questionable loan to an employee who may have given aid to his political campaign and planning his run for governor with Bush political operative Karl Rove while still serving as U.S. attorney. Christie...
MSNBC.com: U.S. Business (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
12:51 p.m. ET MIAMI - A wealthy accountant who provided extensive help in the tax evasion probe of Swiss bank UBS AG was sentenced to a year of house arrest Wednesday after admitting he concealed about $6 million in assets from the IRS.Steven Michael Rubinstein, 55, was the first U.S. citizen charged in the probe. U.S. District Judge Marcia Cooke said his prosecution sent a message around the...
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 22/10/2009
Posted on Thursday, 10.22.09 Russia drops $22.5 bln lawsuit against US bankBy NATALIYA VASILYEVAAP Business WriterMOSCOW -- Russia dropped a $22.5 billion lawsuit Thursday against Bank of New York Mellon after the company agreed to pay $14 million to settle a decade-old money-laundering case involving one of its former executives.The agreement, announced in a joint statement, was expected after...
Examiner (Free subscription) | 22/10/2009
Russia dropped a $22.5 billion lawsuit Thursday against Bank of New York Mellon after the company agreed to pay $14 million to settle a decade-old money-laundering case involving one of its former executives.The agreement, announced in a joint statement, was expected after Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin said in September that Russia had reached a settlement with the bank under which it would...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 22/10/2009
... from The Bank. In November 2005, The Bank of New York and the US Attorney's Offices signed a Non-Prosecution Agreement in which The Bank of New York agreed to pay US$14 million to the U.S. government.
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 22/10/2009
... from The Bank. In November 2005, The Bank of New York and the US Attorney's Offices signed a Non-Prosecution Agreement in which The Bank of New York agreed to pay US$14 million to the U.S. government.
CrimProf Blog (Free subscription) | 22/10/2009
... them; and contrasting these three with KPMG, Gene Foster, and Andrew Fastow, all who secured plea agreements or deferred prosecution agreements with reduced sentences and finite results.
Sentencing Law and Policy (Free subscription) | 20/10/2009
... them; and contrasting these three with KPMG, Gene Foster, and Andrew Fastow, all who secured plea agreements or deferred prosecution agreements with reduced sentences and finite results. The concern here is that innocence or guilt does not always frame the judicial process in white collar cases. The risk of trial becomes so great that in order to minimize the possible consequences,...
AFL-CIO Weblog (Free subscription) | 14/10/2009
... about his spending while a political appointee, Christie also has been criticized for deferred prosecution agreements with political allies and driving violations . The question of Christie’s character is tied up with his stances on issues key to working families. When it comes to health care, education, jobs and critical public services, Christie isn’t offering an agenda...
Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine (Free subscription) | 08/10/2009
... coat as his attorney told Leon County Judge Judith Hawkins that Irby had consented to a deferred prosecution agreement. Conditions of the agreement include not wearing a thong and remaining free of legal problems for three months."
