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H. Ty Warner, the billionaire creator of Beanie Baby plush toys, asked a U.S. judge to give him probation, not prison, for evading taxes on secret Swiss accounts that held as much as $107 million.

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Federal and state governments recovered $18.3 billion between 2008 and 2012 from lawsuits and criminal cases claiming health-care companies overbilled.

The complaint claims that a settlement reached this year in a similar case in Minnesota doesn’t go far enough to compensate former players.

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A consumer claims the American Heart Association fraudulently certifies the company’s products as healthy-- certifying more than 30 of Campbell’s Healthy Request soups as “heart-healthy” even though a can has at least six times as much sodium as the organization recommends.

Johnson & Johnson must pay $7.76 million in punitive damages to a woman who previously won a $3.35 million compensatory award for injuries she blamed on the company’s vaginal-mesh device, a New Jersey jury ruled.

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. may spend hundreds of millions of dollars investigating $24 million in alleged Mexican bribes as the U.S. government weighs whether the company or executives also broke the law by covering up an internal probe, former federal prosecutors said.

A mistrial was declared in the case of former federal prosecutor Paul Bergrin, a defense attorney for rappers and U.S. soldiers, who was charged with conspiring to murder a government informant.

Trader Garrett Bauer sounded both nervous and confident on the call last month. Federal agents had just searched the home of the man on the other end of the line, a go-between he’d used in an alleged insider-trading scheme that the men thought they’d kept a secret since the mid-1990s. Bauer, 43, told his friend he believed they’d sufficiently hidden their crimes by talking on disposable cell or pay phones and by using cash from small bank accounts to dole out profits of the alleged scheme.

Six states, including Missouri, are challenging the federal government’s ability to maintain custody of more than $16 billion in unredeemed U.S. savings bonds sold decades ago, primarily to support World War II efforts. The states claim in a 2004 lawsuit ...

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A Miami man and two unidentified computer hackers were charged with stealing 130 million credit and debit card numbers in what the Justice Department said was the largest such prosecution in U.S. history. Albert Gonzalez, a 28-year-old Miami resident, and ...

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ConocoPhillips, the second-largest U.S. oil refiner, settled a U.S. lawsuit alleging the company refused to accommodate the religious practices of a pipe fitter at its facility in Linden, N.J. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission claimed in 2007 that ConocoPhillips denied ...

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