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Washington, DC: (Mar-01-07) A wrongful arrest lawsuit was filed in a US District Court by four plaintiffs against the District of Columbia after they were arrested without warning during the 2002 protests of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. Two of the plaintiffs were law students working as legal observers for the National Lawyers Guild... - Prudential Insurance Check Kiting Scheme Settlement
Baltimore, MD: (Mar-08-07) A lawsuit was filed by BCSB Bankcorp, Inc., the holding company for Baltimore County Savings Bank, FSB, against its insurance provider Prudential Insurance. BCSB Bankcorp claimed that the insurance company was responsible for covering the losses the company incurred in a check kiting scheme perpetrated by a commercial deposit cust... - Behind the Scenes Snake Oil Salesmen
Mar-7-07 Washington, DC: While the pharmaceutical industry's corrupt practice of peddling ineffective drugs and concealing dangerous side effects has come under scrutiny in recent years, critics say the contributions of the research scientists, academics, medical journals, and the FDA deserve far more credit for their part in the industry's overall marketing scheme... - Veterans Affairs a National Failure
Mar-6-07 Washington, DC: Walter Reed Medical Center may not be a Veterans Affairs (VA) center but problems at the hospital highlight the treatment that some veterans receive when they return home from active duty, including medical malpractice, poor living conditions and lost files. Unfortunately, the recent problems at Walter Reed Medical Center are not new b... - America West Airlines Female Employee Harassment Settlement
Los Vegas, NV: (Feb-26-07) The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed suit against America West Airlines alleging several female airline employees were harassed by a male supervisor. The supervisor, not named, allegedly made sexual comments and touched and rubbed female employees at work at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas. Though A... - Best Kept Secret - SSRIs Do Not Work
Mar-3-07 Washington, DC: The medicalization of distress has led to a dramatic rise in the use of antidepressants, however it is questionable whether patients are being told that in controlled clinical trials the drugs barely outperformed a placebo, says Jonathan Leo, Associate Professor of Neuroanatomy, Lincoln Memorial University, DeBusk College of Osteopathic Med... - Veritas Software Corp. Aiding and Abetting Scheme Civil Penalty
Washington, DC: (Feb-21-07) Symantec Corp.'s Veritas was charged with engaging in a fraudulent scheme to manage earnings and aiding and abetting fraud at Time Warner Inc.'s America Online unit, according to the Securities and Exchange Commission. The SEC alleged that Veritas agreed to buy $20 million in online advertising from AOL in 2000 in exchange fo... - Ortho Evra Patch should be Banned
Feb-28-07 Toronto, ON Judy Baker is shocked that the Ortho Evra patch is still available. Baker developed a painful and life-threatening blood clot, and because of her ordeal, she wants to warn women to stay off the patch. "I was on the Ortho Evra patch for about six months, from June to December of 2006," says Baker (not her real name pending a lawsuit). "I wa... - Activists Take on Eli Lilly Over Off-Label Sale of Zyprexa
Feb-27-07 Washington, DC: On February 23, 2007, a new grass roots advocacy group issued a press release to rally support for attorney, Jim Gottstein, in his legal battle with Eli Lilly over his role in providing secret company documents obtained in litigation to the media to alert the public about the health risks associated with Zyprexa that were kept hidden si... - Swiss Re KeyCorp Contract Breach Settlement
Cleveland, OH: (Feb-20-07) KeyCorp filed a lawsuit against insurer Swiss Re in 2000 in US District Court in Cleveland. The lawsuit questioned whether Swiss Re was obligated to cover losses incurred by KeyCorp in its car leasing business. The Cleveland-based bank leased out about 160,000 cars between 1997 and 2000 through its Key Auto Finance division. K... - Deloitte Parmalat Fraud Settlement
New York, NY: (Feb-20-07) Deloitte, an audit firm, was sued by Parmalat for prolonging fraud at the company leading to its collapse in 2003. In a court ruling, Deloitte was ordered to pay $149 million in damages to the Italian Dairy Company. Parmalat claims to have let Deloitte off for a relatively small amount, though it hopes to secure bigger settleme... - Luis Cornide and Robert De La Riva Investment Fraud Settlement
Coral Gables, FL: (Feb-19-07) Luis Cornide and Robert De La Riva, principles of an investment firm were brought under the scanner by the Securities and Exchange Commission, who claimed that the duo had misappropriated at least $15 million in investor funds. The two agreed to forfeit $4.2 million in cash and $4.4 million in assets to Pension Fund of Amer... - Bank of America Bond Transaction Antitrust Settlement
New York, NY: (Feb-09-07) The Internal Revenue Service filed an antitrust lawsuit against the bank regarding its role in providing guaranteed investment contracts and other agreements related to "blind pool" bond transactions. The bank said that, under the amnesty agreement, it would not face any criminal antitrust prosecution related to matters it repo... - High Death Rate Reported With Bayer's Trasylol
Feb-17-07 Washington, DC: For over a year, Bayer has been under fire over the drug Trasylol , and now Dr Dennis Mangano, the lead author of new study in the February 7, 2007, Journal of the American Medical Association, says the drug may be responsible for 10,000 deaths over five years. Trasylol (aprotinin) was FDA approved for sale in the US in 1993, as an anti... - Deutsche Bank AG Privacy Breach Fine
New York, NY: (Feb-08-07) The New York Stock Exchange charged Deutsche Bank with failure to report conflicts of interest. The lawsuit alleged a significant number of the firm's published research reports, as well as public appearances by research analysts, omitted required conflict-of-interest disclosures over a period of nearly two years. NYSE Regulati... - TD Ameritrade Holding Corp. Program Fraud Settlement
New York, NY: (Feb-08-07) The National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD) began an inquiry in November 2004 examining an online brokerage Ameritrade program that transferred clients' cash through an intermediary agent into government-insured bank accounts. Regulators said the program did not completely remove the funds from Ameritrade, the NASD, w... - Cal Poly Pollution Fine
San Lois Obispo, CA: (Feb-08-07) A complaint filed by water officials in 2006 accused Cal Poly of violating clean water rules. Cal Poly allegedly disposed of waste water from its dairy and swine units by using it to irrigate pasture. University officials agreed to pay $60,000 in fines to state water quality officials after inspections showed that wa... - GEO Group Contract Concessions Settlement
Tallahassee, FL: Top officials alleged that more than $4.5 million in questionable payments to two companies that run five private prisons resulted from the state's contract concessions. After a Florida Senate leader asked for an investigation of her agency's settlement with one of the companies, Department of Management Services Secretary Linda South... - Anita Minervino and Peter Forbes Pirated Music Settlement
Myrtle Beach, SC: In a lawsuit coordinated by the Recording Industry Association of America, record companies Arista, Sony BMG, and Warner Bros alleged copyright violations and detailed songs by artists that had been illegally downloaded over the internet. In the case of Anita Minervino, the lawsuit alleged copyright violations and detailed songs by art... - Millennium Bank Employee Whistleblower Settlement
Reston, VA: On July 14, 2006, a lawsuit was filed in the Circuit Court for the City of Alexandria, VA by a former management employee of Millennium Capital, Inc., an indirect subsidiary of Millennium Bankshares Corporation. The lawsuit claimed Millennium Capital, Millennium Bank, a direct wholly owned subsidiary of the Registrant, and Anita Shull, Execu...