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March 5, 2021
Moola will credit or refund $2.8 million to current and former borrowers, after reaching a settlement with the Commerce Commission over its unreasonable credit and default fees.
March 4, 2021
Attorney General Phil Weiser announced that his office secured more than $9.5 million in refunds for Colorado borrowers who were charged unnecessary GAP insurance fees from Wells Fargo.
March 1, 2021
United Airlines Inc. has agreed to pay over $49 million to resolve criminal charges and civil claims relating to fraud on postal service contracts for transportation of international mail.
February 26, 2021
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has assessed $5.4 million in deferred civil penalties against The Boeing Company for failing to meet its performance obligations under a 2015 settlement agreement.
February 24, 2021
Attorney General Bob Ferguson announced a judge ruled that StarKist, a canned tuna manufacturer, engaged in a price-fixing scheme from November 2011 through December 2013.
February 24, 2021
Pilgrim\'s Pride Corporation, a major broiler chicken producer based in Greeley, Colorado, has pleaded guilty and has been sentenced to pay approximately $107 million in criminal fines for its participation in a conspiracy to fix prices and rig bids for broiler chicken products, the Department of Justice announced.
February 23, 2021
Norwegian hydrogen company Nel has been fined 25 million Norwegian krone (£2 million) for an explosion at a hydrogen fuel station in Sandvika, near Oslo in June 2019.
February 22, 2021
The Federal Court has ordered Kimberly-Clark Australia Pty Ltd to pay a penalty of $200,000 for misleading consumers by falsely representing on its website that its Kleenex Cottonelle ‘flushable cleansing cloths’ were made in Australia, when they were actually made in Germany, South Korea or the UK.
February 19, 2021
Hawai‘i Attorney General Clare E. Connors announced the entry of an $834 million state court order against Bristol-Myers Squibb Company and three U.S.-based subsidiaries of French pharmaceutical company Sanofi for violating the State of Hawai‘i’s unfair and deceptive practices laws.
February 18, 2021
Italy\'s competition watchdog has fined social networking giant Facebook seven million euros (8.45 million U.S. dollars) for failing to comply with a previous order related to improper use of its subscribers\' data.
February 18, 2021
A federal indictment unsealed today charges three North Korean computer programmers with participating in a wide-ranging criminal conspiracy to conduct a series of destructive cyberattacks, to steal and extort more than $1.3 billion of money and cryptocurrency from financial institutions and companies, to create and deploy multiple malicious cryptocurrency applications, and to develop and fraudulently market a blockchain platform.
February 17, 2021
On 10 February 2021, the investigation service of the Dutch tax authorities - FIOD (Fiscale Inlichtingen en OpsporingsDienst) busted a criminal network involved in international VAT fraud with electronic devices traded via an online company.