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JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s $543 million settlement with the trustee for Bernard Madoff’s defunct firm was approved by the judge overseeing its liquidation.

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Jerome O’Hara and George Perez, on trial for creating millions of fake documents to fool investors, allegedly told a colleague in early 2009 to hinder a probe by Irving Picard, the trustee unwinding Madoff’s fraud.

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The airline was accused in a lawsuit of failing to stop the hijacking of the plane that crashed into the north tower of the World Trade Center on 9/11.

S&P and its parent company, McGraw Hill Financial Inc., were sued by the U.S. and a group of states, including Missouri, over ratings on mortgage-backed securities during the housing boom.

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Ann Cox Chambers has an estimated net worth of $8.1 billion and is the world’s 147th richest person, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

Larry Silverstein, who leased the twin towers about two months before they were destroyed, already collected $4.1 billion from insurers and can’t collect twice under New York law.

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The indictment, filed Thursday in federal court in Boston, holds new details about the April 15 attack, including a list of files related to al-Qaeda and jihad found on Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s computer and notes he allegedly wrote about his motive.

The defamation lawsuit over the April 18 article, with the headline “BAG MEN,” was filed Wednesday in Massachusetts Superior Court in Boston by two local men, Salaheddin Barhoum, 16, and Yassine Zaimi, 24, who say they are avid runners who were never sought by authorities after the attack.

News Corp.’s phone-hacking scandal is widening after London police arrested six more former journalists at its now-defunct News of the World tabloid and uncovered a new conspiracy to intercept voicemail.

Julian Assange, founder of the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks, probably will lose his bid for asylum from Ecuador and end up in an English jail for breaking the terms of his bail during an extradition fight, U.K. lawyers say.

Julian Assange, founder of the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks, lost a U.K. appeal to stop his extradition to Sweden to face rape claims almost 11 months after he was arrested in London.