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Herbalife will restructure and pay $200 million to settle FTC charges

July 15, 2016 Herbalife International of America, Herbalife International, and Herbalife have agreed to fully restructure their U.S. business operations and pay $200 million to compensate consumers.

U.S. regulator fines Santander $10 million for overdraft

July 15, 2016 The U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said that Santander Bank would pay $10 million to settle charges that it engaged in illegal overdraft practices.

AG Schneiderman obtains guilty plea from Mical Home Health Care

July 15, 2016 Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman announced the guilty plea of Arthur Anyah, owner of Mical Home Health Care Agency in Peekskill, New York.

AG Bondi announces another major tech support scam settlement

July 15, 2016 Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced a settlement with PC Cleaner, Netcom3 Global, Netcom3, and Cashier Myricks, the principal of the three corporations.

Distribution of checks to consumers harmed by computer chip price-fixing conspiracy

July 15, 2016 Maryland Attorney General Brian E. Frosh announced that his Office, together with 32 other state attorneys general, began the distribution of checks ranging from $25 to $200.

U.S. Labor Dept recovers $431k for workers on federally funded project

July 15, 2016 Thirty-one workers employed on the federally funded cobblestone reconstruction project on Manhattan’s Peck Slip will receive $431,715 in back wages and interest following an investigation and litigation by the U.S. Department of Labor.

Longtime fugitive Eric Bartoli pleads guilty to stealing $65 million

July 14, 2016 Eric V. Bartoli, who was indicted in 2003 and was a fugitive for more than a decade, pleaded guilty to defrauding hundreds of investors out of millions of dollars in the 1990s.

N.J. couple and two diagnostic companies ordered to pay $7.75m

July 14, 2016 A Morris County, N.J., couple and their diagnostic imaging companies were ordered to pay more than $7.75 million.

U.S. fines Norway shipper nearly $100m for price-fixing

July 14, 2016 In September 2012, the U.S. Department of Justice started investigations into the car carrying industry and ocean transport to and from the United States.

Juno Therapeutics and its CEO sued for securities fraud

July 14, 2016 Juno Therapeutics and its chief executive officer, Hans E. Bishop, were named as defendants in a lawsuit filed by Block & Leviton and Tousley Brain Stephens alleging that they violated the federal securities laws.

Golden Agri Intl to pay $150,000 for failing to report cash positions

July 13, 2016 CFTC issued an order filing and simultaneously settling charges against Golden Agri International that operates as a processor and trader of crude palm oil, which it hedges with soybean oil futures contracts,.

DESK will pay 650,000 RUB for abusing dominance

July 13, 2016 Elektroset Municipal Unitary Enterprise (Kizilyurt) filed a complaint to the antimonopoly body regarding DESK PJSC with the Federal Antimonopoly Service of the Russian Federation (FAS).