JPMorgan Chase agreed to pay the fines to resolve allegations that it and Bear Stearns, which it acquired in 2008, misled investors about the quality of mortgage-backed securities they sold during the run-up to the financial crisis.

Whoever can show they provided information that enabled the Securities and Exchange Commission to extract a pledge by the nation's biggest bank has until May 9 to document how he or she helped regulators enforce laws that led to the settlement, the SEC said Friday.

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