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- Floor Superstores $343,000 settlement for false promises and denied refunds. (Sep-28-06)
- Gunning & Associates Marketing Inc. and Fleet Liquidators of America Inc. $300,000 settlement for misleading advertisements. (Sep-25-06)
- Circuit City Stores Inc. $800,000 settlement for item-pricing violations. (Sep-22-06)
- Doral Financial Corp. $25 million civil penalty for unaccounted mortgage loans. (Sep-20-06)
- Denny and Audra Snyder $10,000 for losing a prize winning dog. (Sep-20-06)
- Workforce Central Florida and the Workforce Central Florida Foundation Inc. $3.5 million settlement for defrauding the government by misusing federal grant funds to improve privately owned offices. (Sep-18-06)
- Securities America Inc. $2.5 million civil fine and $13.8 million returned to Exxon Mobil retirees for broker fraud. (Sep-15-06)
- Ricardo Salinas Pliego and Pedro Padilla Longoria $8.5 million settlement in fines for concealing related party deals between Unefon and Codisco. (Sep-15-06)
- City of Arlington, TX $2.75 million eminent domain settlement for condemned land for the new Cowboys football stadium. (Sep-14-06)
- Neil's Finance Plaza and Regency Financial Corp. $1.039 million settlement awarded for odometer fraud. (Sep-11-06)
- GlaxoSmithKline PLC $3.4 billion paid to the US Internal Revenue Service for tax disputes. (Sep-11-06)
- Western Union Financial Services Inc. $3 million settlement for failing to comply with state reporting laws intended to help combat money laundering and illegal immigration. (Sep-5-06)
- Pitney Bowes Inc. $1.1 billion tax settlement. (Sep-4-06)
- Edward St. John $140,000 given to the family of an alleged lottery winner. (Aug-25-06)
- U.S. Bank $275,000 settlement awarded for city tax embezzlement. (Aug-21-06)
- Pioneer Natural Resources Co. $32 million settlement for improper deductions in royalty calculations. (Aug-21-06)
- Government of Argentina $185 million settlement awarded to Azurix for breach of contract. (Aug-20-06)
- Edison Chouest Offshore $9 million breach of contract settlement awarded to the Port of Galveston. (Aug-17-06)
- Rabobank $830,000 settlement awarded to King City regarding a financial dispute. (Aug-17-06)
- Banca Popolare Italiana 59.5 million euros awarded to Parmalat in revocatory claims. (Aug-8-06)
- Martha Stewart $195,000 settlement for civil insider trading violations. (Aug-7-06)
- Milan Panic $20 million settlement paid to Valeant Pharmaceuticals for unwarranted bonuses. (Aug-6-06)
- Wyndham International Inc. $2.3 million automatic surcharge settlement awarded to hotel guests. (Aug-1-06)
- CNL Hotels and Resorts $35 million settlement awarded to investors. (Jul-31-06)
- e-Plus Inc. $6 million fraud settlement awarded to GMAC Commercial Finance. (Jul-31-06)
- M.D.C. Holdings Inc., WL Homes and Chesapeake Title Reinsurance Co. $1.6 million illegal kickbacks settlement awarded to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). (Jul-24-06)
- BP America $120 million natural gas royalty settlement awarded to approximately 4,500 southwestern Colorado landowners. (Jul-24-06)
- Mario Gabelli $130 million fraud settlement awarded to the U.S. government. (Jul-18-06)
- Michael Jackson $900,000 settlement awarded to former associate F. Marc Schaffel. (Jul-18-06)
- Irving, Exxon Mobil Corp. $320 million settlement awarded in attorney's fees to Miami law firms. (Jul-17-06)
- Van Der Moolen Specialists USA $3.5 million stock loan settlement awarded to the New York Stock Exchange. (Jul-17-06)
- The Hammond Port Authority $775,000 tentative settlement awarded to Texas architect Charles Howard. (Jul-17-06)
- Merrill Lynch $29.5 million fraud settlement awarded to Enron Corp. (Jul-17-06)
- Wachovia Corp. $25 million settlement awarded to the U.S. government and the District of Columbia. (Jul-11-06)
- The U.S. Government $4 billion softwood lumber tariff settlement awarded to Canadian producers. (Jul-11-06)
- Charter Communications Inc. $34,000.00 settlement for underpaid franchise fees awarded to the city of Tullahoma. (Jul-11-06)
- Columbus Bank and Trust Co. and CompuCredit Corp. $11 million settlement awarded to 60,000 New Yorkers. (Jul-11-06)
- Deloitte & Touche $24 million proposed settlement agreement for trust funds. (Jul-5-06)
- The U.S. Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service $15 billion settlement in tax refunds awarded to consumers. (Jul-5-06)
- Fifth Third Bancorp. of Cincinnati lawsuit filed on behalf of Pennsylvania State Employees Credit Union (PSECU) dismissed. (Jun-27-06)
- Seal, a.k.a. Henry Olusegun Adeola Samuel $922,000 interim payment settlement awarded to John Wadlow. (Jun-27-06)
- Stryker Corporation, CNOS and Siouxland Surgery Center $345,000 federal kickback settlement awarded to the Medicare Trust Fund. (Jun-27-06)
- Pakachoag Acres Day Care Center $688,000 fraud settlement awarded to the State of Massachusetts. (Jun-27-06)
- Scientific-Atlanta Inc. $20 million reporting violations settlement awarded to The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. (Jun-26-06)
- Herbert and Evelyn Axelrod $10 million settlement awarded Central Garden & Pet Co. (Jun-26-06)
- Blaise Financial Entities an out-of-court settlement has been reached in the $2 billion lawsuit. (Jun-26-06)
- Cory Pelnar $180,000 paid back to the Omaha Catholic Archdiocese and five years probation can end early if the full amount of $300,000 is paid. (Jun-20-06)
- Opus Communities Inc. Proposed $1 million settlement for defrauding investors. (Jun-7-06)
- United Technologies Corp. $283 million settlement for government contract accounting matters. (Jun-7-06)
- Bradford Bleidt $6.3 million settlement for defrauding investors. (Jun-6-06)