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- Goldman Sachs Group Inc. $2 million to settle stock irregularities. (Mar-16-07)
- Bank of America Corp. $26 million into fund to benefit customers after improper functioning and fraudulent information. (Mar-15-07)
- National School Fitness Foundation $130,000 settlement for selling fraudulent exercise equipment to schools. (Mar-15-07)
- Platinum Diversified Mining, Inc. $3.6 million settlement for termination of a merger agreement. (Mar-12-07)
- Bruce Headley Stable owner gets $900,000 from trainer for advising him to buy horses at an inflated price. (Mar-9-07)
- PCL Construction Services $1 million settlement for contract bidding fraud. (Mar-8-07)
- Wachovia Bank $775,000 settlement for employee embezzlement. (Mar-8-07)
- American International Group Inc. $1.64 billion settlement for accounting and sales practices. (Mar-8-07)
- Delta Air Lines Inc. Airline comes under labor department probe for using family care funds to cover severance costs and pays $70 million to fund. (Mar-7-07)
- Royal Alliance Associates $750,000 administrative penalty after a former branch manager defrauded senior citizens of more than $4 million. (Mar-7-07)
- St. Joseph County Mental heath facility files claim for being underpaid for over a decade, gets $3.25 million. (Feb-28-07)
- Veritas Software Corp. Company charged with engaging in a fraudulent scheme as well as aiding and abetting fraud pays $30 million civil penalty to settle with SEC. (Feb-28-07)
- Fannie Mae Mortgage giant pays $400 million civil penalty in an accounting fraud lawsuit filed by the Securities and Exchange Commission (Feb-27-07)
- Deloitte Dairy company sues auditing firm for prolonging fraud, gets $149 million in compensation. (Feb-26-07)
- Luis Cornide and Robert De La Riva $8.6 million settlement for investment fraud. (Feb-25-07)
- Deutsche Bank Bank fined $1.275 million for failure to report conflicts of interest and breach of privacy. (Feb-16-07)
- Irvine Unified School District City reimburses $150,000 to parents of autistic child. (Feb-16-07)
- Internal Revenue Service $19 million settlement for tax refunds. (Feb-16-07)
- TD Ameritrade Holding Corp. Securities fraud lawsuit has online brokerage firm payout $150,000. (Feb-15-07)
- Ukiah Unified School District Local developer wins lawsuit against school district over impact fees, gets $112,000 plus interest. (Feb-15-07)
- Jamie Gold $6 million of grand prize given to TV producer. (Feb-14-07)
- Carolina Tobacco Company $350,000 paid to Oregon state for failing to meet standard registration policies. (Feb-12-07)
- Farmand, Farmand & Farmand $500,000 settlement to cover deceased former employee theft. (Feb-12-07)
- Cablevision $2.5 million pay off to liquidators in bankruptcy lawsuit. (Feb-11-07)
- Corpus Christy County, TX County settles with Construction Company for violating state laws. (Feb-8-07)
- GEO Group $400,000 settlement for questionable payments in contract concessions. (Feb-8-07)
- PBS&J Corp. $6.4 million settlement for false claims and embezzlement. (Feb-8-07)
- Joe Palma Former County Sheriff settles for embezzlement of Kentucky state funds. (Feb-7-07)
- Gateway to a Cure $3.6 million settlement for fraudulent raffle sales. (Feb-6-07)
- Sun-Times Media Group $50 million settlement for breaching fiduciary duties. (Jan-28-07)
- Lawrence Lasser $75,000 fine related to improper broker payments. (Jan-10-07)
- Jackson Hewitt, Inc. $5 million settlement for marketing high cost RALs to low income customers. (Jan-5-07)
- Indigo Creek Holdings, Inc. $750,000 settlement for failing and refusing to issue the stock certificates. (Jan-4-07)
- Virginia Pilot Association $350,000 settlement after overcharging fees for guiding Carnival ships. (Jan-3-07)
- Cardinal Health Inc. $11 million settlement for improper secondary market trading. (Dec-28-06)
- Kellogg, Brown and Root $8 million settlement paid to the United States for over billing. (Dec-5-06)
- California State Department of Social Services $200,000 settlement for miscalculating adoptive support payments. (Dec-1-06)
- Friedman, Billings, Ramsey Group, Inc. $4.5 million settlement related to a private investment in public equity offering. (Nov-23-06)
- IHOP Corp. $11 million settlement paid to the IRS for historical tax treatment of franchise fees. (Nov-20-06)
- Church of Scientology $3.5 million received from a pyramid scheme returned to investors. (Nov-9-06)
- Delphi Corp. $1.4 million in fines for allegedly engaging in accounting schemes to mask declining financial conditions. (Oct-31-06)
- Zurich American Insurance Co. $7 million for its role in a market allocation scheme. (Oct-25-06)
- Walgreen Co. $550,000 payment for violating Michigan item pricing laws. (Oct-24-06)
- CVS Corp. $152,000 in civil penalties for violating a previous settlement related to a sweepstakes offer. (Oct-17-06)
- Morgan Stanley $1 million in restitution and penalties for a former broker who defrauded her clients. (Oct-17-06)
- Sempra Energy $5.7 million for wrongly diverting natural gas from power plants. (Oct-16-06)
- Steven Markovitz $570,000 in fines for violating a ban on associating with investment advisers. (Oct-11-06)
- Oracle Corp. $98.5 million settlement for overcharging government contracts. (Oct-11-06)
- ING Group $30 million for allegedly accepting payments from companies to promote their funds in retirement plans. (Oct-10-06)
- Mercury Interactive Corporation Proposed $35 million civil penalty for stock option granting practices. (Sep-29-06)