She was joined by officials from several other agencies to announce a deferred-prosecution agreement.
The accounting firm KPMG was singing the blues last week as it narrowly avoided criminal indictment over questionable tax shelters and announced a deferred-prosecution agreement with the government.
The I.O.C. hopes to announce a winner by Sunday, but could defer the bidding for a year if it does not like the offers.
On Monday, Standard Chartered announced that it had received a deferred prosecution agreement requiring the bank to pay $327 million to avoid charges over its dealings with companies doing business in Iran and Sudan.
In June 2012, President Obama announced a program to defer deportations of undocumented immigrants like me who are in high school or have graduated, are younger than 31, entered the country before age 16 and have continuously lived here at least five years.
It prompted the DOJ to announce a new policy in 2003 that allowed non-prosecution or deferred prosecution settlements with companies as a way to enforce important laws without causing a corporate collapse.
One of these investigations, for which Morgenthau said further results may be announced within the next 30 days, already led to a deferred prosecution agreement this January.
In announcing the deferred prosecution agreement, the Justice Department said that had it sought more money it might have risked driving the company into bankruptcy, costing the jobs of innocent people, and it praised the company for getting rid of the people responsible for the crimes.
A deferred prosecution agreement.
Do you have a deferred compensation plan?
With the wait from the time that early-decision results are announced in mid-December until regular results are announced in April, deferred high school seniors are stressed-out have-nots among the relaxed and relieved haves, especially with up to half of freshman classes at some universities filled early.
