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BP agrees to pay $4.5B; 3 employees charged
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A day of reckoning arrived for BP on Thursday as the oil giant agreed to plead guilty to a raft of criminal charges and pay a record $4.5 billion in a settlement with the government over the deadly 2010 disaster in the Gulf of...
Tags: Criminals, Greenpeace, Petroleum Industry, Lawyers, Gulf of Mexico
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Blackstone notifies Cohen's SAC it intends to pull money: pension consultant
Reuters(Reuters) - Billionaire hedge fund manager Steven A. Cohen is losing the financial support of Blackstone Group Inc, the largest outside investor in his embattled SAC Capital Advisors, which is yanking much of its client money, according to a letter...Tags: Steven Cohen, Investments, Justice System, SAC Capital Advisors, Mutual Funds
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Duo back in the music business, and loving every minute of it
The mom taking her child for music lessons was adamant: She wanted to be called pronto the next time rock singer Rick Springfield showed up at Markee Rehearsal and Recording studios in Deerfield Beach. "We get that a lot," chuckled songwriter Keith...
Tags: Fort Lauderdale, Florida's Turnpike, Florida Gators, Van Halen (music group), Music Industry
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Obama nominates 2 Senate aides as SEC commissioners
Two senior U.S. Senate aides were nominated by President Obama to join the Securities and Exchange Commission. Kara M. Stein would replace Elisse B. Walter as a Democratic commissioner and Michael S. Piwowar would succeed Troy A. Paredes as a...Tags: Mary Jo White, Dwayne Johnson, Mike Crapo, Barack Obama, U.S. Senate
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China gives U.S. regulators access to audit records
China agreed to give a U.S. regulator access to documents from Chinese accounting firms, moving toward a resolution of a dispute that could have pushed the country's companies to stop trading on U.S. stock markets. The Public Company Accounting Oversight...Tags: China, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Ltd., Business Enterprises, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Accounting and Auditing
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U.S. audit regulator reaches deal with China on document access
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. regulators will get access to Chinese companies' audit documents under a deal announced on Friday, opening the way to probes of bungled audits after a two-year stand-off between China and the United States. The nonbinding deal...Tags: Chuck Schumer, Ernst & Young, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Ltd., Financial Markets, Economy, Business and Finance
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DOJ subpoenas documents on Forest Labs' inhalation drug
Reuters(Reuters) - Drugmaker Forest Laboratories received a subpoena earlier this month from U.S. prosecutors requesting documents relating to its small-selling lung disorder product, the Tudorza Pressair inhaler, the company said in a filing. The New York-...Tags: Namenda (drug), COPD, Justice System, Food and Drug Administration, Carl Icahn
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Ill. pension manager urging Wal-Mart for more 'clawback' disclosures
Tribune reporterThe manager of $13 billion in Illinois pension assets is among a group of Wal-Mart investors backing a proposal that would require the require the retailer to detail any incentive or stock compensation it recoups from executives. The Illinois State...Tags: Walmart
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China agrees to give US regulators access to audit records for Chinese companies
WASHINGTON (AP) — China has agreed to give U.S. regulators access to audit records for Chinese companies whose shares trade on U.S. stock exchanges, a step forward in a long-running dispute. The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, a watchdog...Tags: China, Washington, DC
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RPT-U.S. SEC charges ex-LPL adviser with $2 mln civil fraud
ReutersBy Suzanne Barlyn May 23 (Reuters) - The top U.S. securities regulator on Thursday filed civil fraud charges against a former LPL Financial LLC adviser, charging he diverted some $2 million of client funds to use for personal expenses. The U.S....Tags: Securities, Economy, Business and Finance, Georgia Bulldogs, Finance
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Academics back BP's fight to cap oil spill payouts
ReutersLONDON (Reuters) - A group of accountancy professors is backing BP's fight to cap the U.S. oil spill compensation payouts it has to fund as the cash outflow threatens to add billions of dollars to its bill for the disaster. The news comes after the...Tags: Elections, George W. Bush, Lawyers, Oil Spills, Justice System
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Allentown's fiscal problems are bad, but Harrisburg's are even worse
Allentown has a $200 million red ink problem, which, it seems, is the fault of any city politician not currently in office, and a population of 118,000 as of the 2010 census. That $200 million, split 118,000 ways, comes to less than $1,700 per person....
Tags: Harrisburg (Dauphin, Pennsylvania), Local Elections, Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Ed Pawlowski, Roy Afflerbach
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