Attorney General Eric Holder, who said last week he plans to leave office, spent the past year making up for lost time in an effort to hold banks accountable for their role in the 2008 financial crisis.
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Read More »Attorney General Eric Holder, who said last week he plans to leave office, spent the past year making up for lost time in an effort to hold banks accountable for their role in the 2008 financial crisis.
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Read More »Bank of America Corp. is nearing a settlement with the U.S. Justice Department in which it will pay between $16 billion and $17 billion to resolve probes into its sale of mortgage-backed bonds in the run-up to the financial crisis, a person familiar with the matter said.
Read More »BNP Paribas SA is close to an agreement to plead guilty and pay $8 billion to $9 billion to settle allegations it violated U.S. sanctions.
Read More »The U.S. Justice Department has asked Citigroup Inc. for more than $10 billion to settle an investigation into the lender’s sale of mortgage-backed bonds in the run-up to the 2008 financial crisis, according to a person familiar with the negotiations.
Read More »U.S. authorities are seeking more than $10 billion from BNP Paribas SA to settle federal and state investigations into the lender’s dealings with sanctioned countries including Sudan and Iran, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Read More »U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said his department is readying criminal cases against banks that show financial institutions aren’t too big to prosecute.
Read More »The Justice Department didn’t ensure that mortgage-fraud cases in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis were made a priority at a level equal to its public statements, an internal watchdog said.
Read More »In Wednesday’s ruling, the court said the use of the “Like” button was both “pure speech” and symbolic expression.
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Read More »U.S. District Judge Richard Leon in Washington ruled Wednesday that the Fed considered data it wasn’t allowed to use in setting a 21-cent cap on debit-card transaction fees under the Dodd- Frank law.
Read More »The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s 2008 standards for ozone pollution, challenged by both industry and environmentalists, were upheld by a federal appeals court that ruled the agency properly weighed science and policy.
Read More »U.S. District Judge John Bates in Washington Tuesday ruled in favor of groups that argued the regulation would hobble companies’ competitiveness by forcing them to publicly disclose information that could be used to influence political events in other countries.
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