Posted by Reuters: Business News on January 26, 2012
CAMPOS, Brazil (Reuters) – A Brazilian prosecutor plans to file criminal charges against Chevron Corp and some of its local managers within weeks, adding the threat of prison sentences to an $11 billion civil lawsuit as punishment for a November offshore oil spill.
Posted by The PIPEs Report on November 30, 2011
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Posted by Reuters: Business News on November 22, 2011
(Reuters) – Merck & Co will pay roughly $950 million to settle criminal and civil charges that it promoted the painkiller drug Vioxx for an unapproved use, the U.S. Justice Department said on Tuesday.
Posted by Reuters: Business News on October 26, 2011
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A former Goldman Sachs director, who also was once the global head of elite consultancy McKinsey & Co, will surrender to the FBI on Wednesday to face criminal insider trading-related charges, a person familiar with the investigation said.
Posted by Reuters: Business News on October 25, 2011
(Reuters) Former Goldman Sachs director Rajat Gupta will surrender to the FBI on Wednesday to face criminal charges, a person familiar with the investigation said.
Posted by Reuters: Business News on December 10, 2010
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A jury on Friday convicted a former Goldman Sachs computer programer on criminal charges of stealing secret high-frequency trading code from Wall Street’s most influential bank.
Posted by Reuters: Business News on August 17, 2010
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A federal judge considering the settlement between Barclays Bank Plc and the Justice Department over criminal charges that the bank violated U.S. trade sanctions called it a “sweetheart deal.”
Posted by Reuters: Business News on May 28, 2010
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Johnson & Johnson <JNJ.N was blasted by lawmakers on Thursday for its massive recall of children’s medicines, as regulators said a string of recent manufacturing lapses could lead to civil or criminal charges.
Posted by Reuters: Business News on April 30, 2010
WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) – Federal prosecutors in New York have begun investigating Goldman Sachs Group Inc, raising the possibility of criminal charges against the company or its employees, a source familiar with the situation said on Thursday.
Posted by Reuters: Business News on March 13, 2010
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – An explosive report by a court-appointed examiner on the collapse of Lehman Brothers may prove to be a roadmap for prosecutors to bring criminal cases against the investment bank’s former executives, legal experts say.
