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August 15, 2018
The Justice Department announced a $4.9 billion settlement with The Royal Bank of Scotland Group plc (RBS) resolving federal civil claims that RBS misled investors in the underwriting and issuing of residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) between 2005 and 2008.
August 14, 2018
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined Lifecycle Marketing (Mother and Baby) Ltd, also known as Emma’s Diary, £140,000 for illegally collecting and selling personal information belonging to more than one million people.
August 13, 2018
The Federal Court of Australia has declared by consent that Palram Australia and Ampelite Australia engaged in exclusive dealing conduct with the purpose of substantially lessening competition, and has ordered them to pay penalties totaling $5.5 million.
August 12, 2018
The Federal Reserve Board (Fed) announced an $8.6 million fine against Citigroup for the improper execution of residential mortgage-related documents.
August 11, 2018
Monsanto has been ordered to pay $289 million damages to a man who claimed herbicides containing glyphosate had caused his cancer.
August 9, 2018
Southern California Gas Co. (SoCalGas) announced the company has entered into a settlement agreement with the Los Angeles City Attorney\'s Office, the County of Los Angeles, the California Office of the Attorney General, and the California Air Resources Board to resolve all outstanding claims by those government bodies against the company related to the 2015-2016 natural gas leak at the Aliso Canyon natural gas storage facility.
August 8, 2018
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charged a cloud communications company and two executives with providing misleading quarterly revenue estimates.
August 8, 2018
The Justice Department announced that Richard A. Olsen agreed to pay $124,440 to resolve claims that he violated the False Claims Act by submitting inflated prices in connection with a subcontract between Mission Support Alliance, LLC (MSA), a prime contractor at the Department of Energy (DOE) Hanford Nuclear Reservation, and Lockheed Martin Services, Inc. (LMSI), a subsidiary of Lockheed Martin Corporation (LMC).
August 7, 2018
The Justice Department announced that it has reached a settlement with Rose Acre Farms Inc. (Rose Acre), which is based in Indiana and is one of the largest egg producers in the United States.
August 6, 2018
Three high-ranking members of a sophisticated international cybercrime group operating out of Eastern Europe have been arrested and are currently in custody facing charges filed in U.S. District Court in Seattle.
August 4, 2018
The U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a settlement agreement with Anchor Glass Container Corporation that will resolve alleged Clean Air Act violations at all six of Anchor’s container glass manufacturing facilities located in Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Minnesota, New York and Oklahoma and improve the company’s compliance with federal and state clean air laws.
August 2, 2018
Wells Fargo has agreed to pay $2.09 billion in penalty to settle claims related to mortgage loans originated in the run-up to the financial crisis.