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nearly $200 million to the SEC to settle civil charges, nearly unbridled avarice on Wall Street, to resolve claims that it sold toxic mortgage-backed securities, bank hired children of powerful people/officials, an event that is supposed to happen only once in every 3 billion years

"While we are appreciative of the court's careful consideration of the class in this case against Ford, we will continue to fight for the rights of all consumers who paid a heavy premium for dangerous, defective in-car touchscreen systems," said Steve Berman

say they were fired or demoted for staying honest,The bind Germany's biggest bank finds itself in, 15 examples of Merrill fat-fingering the stock market, damaging US probe into bribery allegations, Russian 'Ponzi scheme', Libyan Investment Authority

Speculation that the U.S. Justice Department will demand a multibillion-dollar fine

owe the federal government billions of dollars, inflated earnings by using deceptive income tax accounting, fraudulently soliciting clients and prospective clients, a "top-to-bottom" review of all cases, complaints and other alleged violations, whether Yahoo and its senior executives fulfilled obligations to inform investors

asked a U.S. federal judge to reject requests from European investors and vehicle owners, stronger enforcement will be needed to stop cheating by auto makers, More than 45 million cars and trucks have yet to have important safety-related recalls resolved

lapses in its Merrill Lynch unit's risk controls disrupted trading, bid to toss claims of interbank benchmark rate manipulation, reckless trades were "partly responsible" for the huge losses, systematically extracted hundreds of millions of dollars from Medicare and Medicaid, Shell has paid an additional $8 million in settlement moneys

Stefan Knirsch is leaving the carmaker with immediate effect, Winterkorn, approved a plan to disclose only partial information on the carmaker's software rigging to U.S. authorities

record settlements under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, Siemens AG pleaded guilty in 2008 to violating the FCPA, charges against Barclays Bank, bank's hiring of relatives of influential Chinese officials was tantamount to paying a bribe, nation's highest Medicare prescriber of opioid painkillers, $3 billion lawsuit by investors

employees are "encouraged to raise their hands" , raising the bar on world-wide enforcement efforts, Cornhill misconstrued the purpose for which sanctions were imposed, was a big part of some $1 billion in fictitious losses the IRS had discovered, mismanagement helped destroy nearly $200 billion of shareholder value

bankruptcy court orders shielding the post-bankruptcy version of the company from liability for ignition-switch defects, a sequence of events that would cripple the VW brand in the U.S. and plunge the company into a year of crisis.

Forty-two California government entities joined a whistleblower suit in December in California state court alleging that Verizon Wireless, AT&T Mobility, Sprint Nextel and T-Mobile USA overcharged government customers by more than $100 million.

court said it received some 750 lawsuits on Monday alone,

civil monetary penalty as a result of their unlawful conduct., whistleblower whose original information alerted the agency to a fraud. cozy relationships between audit partners and clients are off the table, millions of dollars in federal government contracts, Should Dodd-Frank's anti-retaliation provisions be read broadly or narrowly?

Federal auto safety regulators on Monday made it official: They are betting the nation's highways will be safer with more cars driven by machines and not people.

has already been asked to clear his desk, News of a second crash involving Tesla Motors' semiautonomous driving system has raised questions about how early Tesla knew drivers may have been misusing the technology.

EcoWatch learned that the recently unsealed whistleblower lawsuit was served on the chemical companies on Wednesday. The lawsuit was originally filed under seal in federal court in Northern California.

An Atkinson mother has filed a personal injury lawsuit against the makers of Jeep Grand Cherokee because her parked vehicle popped out of gear and rolled over her legs as she tried to stop it, according to her lawyer.

to settle claims it missold mortgage-backed securities, valuation of Exxon's assets from a global crack down on carbon pollution,False Claims Act settlement with UnitedHealth Group Inc, sectors where gift-giving is customary particularly worried.

Grand Cherokee owners have filed separate injury lawsuits in New Hampshire and Virginia, Star Trek actor killed by roll away Jeep, software glitch can stop the vehicles from accelerating. air bag defect linked to three deaths and five injuries.