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Volkswagen AG and the U.S. Justice Department are nearing an agreement to resolve the government's civil and criminal investigations that would require the German automaker to pay a penalty of more than $3 billion, sources briefed on the talks told Reuters on Friday. The agreement is not final and could still change or fall apart but a deal could be announced as early as next week.

once a sleepy lender to German car companies, had transformed itself in just 10 years, using "insolvent" shell companies to hide significant tax liabilities, conspired to suppress and eliminate competition by fixing prices, steered $2 billion in trades to two brokerages in exchange for bribes that included vacations, cocaine and prostitutes.

President-elect Donald Trump said on Wednesday he intends to nominate Jay Clayton, alleged corruption by Novartis, plenty of reasons to suspect something might have been fishy about his hedge fund, scandal that led to President Park Geun-hye's impeachment

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a trillion dollars was wiped off indexes in 2010, court decisions have favored investors who profited from the scam, securities-fraud charges to go before a new jury, kickback scheme that prosecutors allege involved a sham medical study

Honda has issued a stop-sale order and recalled a total of 641,302 Odyssey minivans in the U.S.

"unparalleled bribery and bid rigging scheme", retaliated against her after she became a whistleblower about illegal and aggressive sales tactics, Crucially, the new scheme will be independent of the Communist Party, new hurdles for litigators,

General Cable FCPA non prosecution agreement, Swiss banks to resolve potential criminal liabilities in the United States, misused investor funds intended to create U.S. jobs through the EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program.

brakes that may fail in certain conditions, nearing a criminal settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice and is expected to pay up to $1 billion

schemes to bribe Mexican officials in order to secure aircraft maintenance and repair contracts, bribes paid to elected officials to procure or expand Redflex's contracts with Chicago and Columbus, trading on confidential corporate information obtained by hacking into networks and servers of law firms

Autoliv, which says its products are in 1,300 auto models around the world, did not specify which automakers would be affected.

defrauded a low-income subsidy program by seeking reimbursement for ineligible consumers, bank balked at paying the amount the government sought in settlement negotiations, Prosecutors ask about billionaire hedge-fund manager, Bermuda reinsurer in Platinum investigation

11 million of its vehicles were equipped with software that was used to cheat on emissions tests. The company is now contending with the fallout

Bank courted state fund now at heart of global embezzlement probes, Teva Pharmaceutical to settle U.S. criminal and civil allegations, 3.5 billion to resolve bribery allegations involving Brazil's state-run oil company, training accounts that merely simulated the placement and execution of trade orders, improperly sought reimbursement of funding

8,000 2017 Super Duty trucks that do not contain a proper fuel tank strap, complaints that Smart ForTwo vehicle engines catch fire and quickly consume the cars, Volkswagen has reached a deal with U.S. regulators to repair or buy back a total of 83,000 vehicles

to resolve claims that it manipulated a key benchmark, a global investigation into bribes paid across the world to secure business, Switzerland handed out about $100 million in antitrust fines against seven U.S. and European banks, providing false account statements to commodity pool participants and misappropriating pool participants' funds

asset levels still didn't leave enough money around to avoid recourse to a Ponzi scheme, transaction served no purpose other than to act as a tax shelter. Diamonds, Big Mining and George Soros

For the older vehicles, Volkswagen is required to offer to buy back the vehicles or terminate leases, and must also offer an emissions modification to substantially reduce emissions, costs of buybacks, fixes and diesel offsets were about $1 billion

The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is launching an investigation into about 1 million newer Fiat Chrysler Ram pickup trucks and SUVs after receiving complaints the vehicles rolled away after being parked, it said on Tuesday.

A founder of the New York hedge fund Platinum Partners and six others were arrested on Monday morning on charges relating to a $1 billion fraud. The men were charged with securities fraud and investment adviser fraud in a $1 billion scheme in which executives used new investor money to pay older investors, according to an unsealed indictment filed in Federal District Court in Brooklyn.