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Telcos in New Zealand fined $121,500 for billing customers after contracts finished

February 14, 2020
Retail telecommunications providers CallPlus Services Limited trading as Slingshot, Flip Services Limited and Orcon Limited have been fined a total of $121,500 for making false representations in invoices they sent to their customers.

Tenet Healthcare and affiliated California hospital to pay $1.41 million fine

February 12, 2020
Tenet Healthcare Corporation and its affiliated hospital Desert Regional Medical Center (DRMC), a general medical and surgical hospital located in Palm Springs, California, have agreed to pay $1.41 million to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by knowingly charging Medicare for implanting unnecessary cardiac monitors, the Justice Department announced.

Tank vessel operator convicted of discharge of waste, agrees to pay $1.75 million fine

February 11, 2020
Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement Singapore, a vessel operating company, pleaded guilty in federal court to one count of maintaining false and incomplete records relating to the discharge of bilge waste from the tank vessel Topaz Express, a felony violation of the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships.

France fines Apple 25 million euros for slowing down old iPhones

February 10, 2020
France’s consumer watchdog has announced it has served Apple with a 25 million euros fine for intentionally slowing down old iPhone models.

Competition Council in Romania fines Netcity Telecom 460,000 euros

February 5, 2020
The Competition Council sanctioned Netcity Telecom with fine totalling 2,183,552 lei (approximately 460,000 Euro) for abuse of a dominant position.

Federal Reserve Board permanently barring senior Goldman Sachs executive from banking industry

February 5, 2020
The Federal Reserve Board yesterday announced that it is permanently barring Andrea Vella, a senior executive at Goldman Sachs, from the banking industry for his role in Goldman\'s financing of a defrauded Malaysian sovereign wealth fund.

AG Becerra secures nearly $344 million against Johnson and Johnson in pelvic mesh case

February 3, 2020
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra secured a Superior Court judgment against Johnson and Johnson for false and deceptive marketing of its pelvic mesh products for women.

Chipotle fined peanuts for 13,253 child labor law violations in Massachusetts

February 2, 2020
Chipotle will pay a $1.3 million fine for 13,253 child labor violations in Massachusetts locations.

Italy antitrust fines telecom groups over billing practices

February 1, 2020
Italy\'s antitrust authority said yesterday it had fined Italy\'s top four phone operators a total of 228 million euros ($253 million) for breaching competition rules by collectively agreeing to raise their prices.

Airbus fined record $4 billion in bribery settlement

January 31, 2020
Airbus bribed public officials and hid the payments as part of a pattern of worldwide corruption.

Romanian Competition Council sanctioned Roche Romania with fine of 12,8 million euros

January 30, 2020
The Competition Council sanctioned the pharmaceutical company Roche Romania SRL with fines totalling lei 59,967,944 lei (Euro 12,857,897) for abuse of dominant position on the market of oncological products in Romania.

New York AG sues ‘Pharma Bro' Martin Shkreli and Vyera Pharmaceuticals for extreme prices

January 28, 2020
New York Attorney General Letitia James announced a lawsuit against Vyera Pharmaceuticals previously known as Turing Pharmaceuticals and two of its former CEOs including ‘Pharma Bro’ Martin Shkreli for stifling competition to protect the exorbitant, monopolistic pricing of the drug Daraprim (pyrimethamine).
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