The sentences concluded a case that has lasted for three years.
"Concluding a case like this needs lots of resources which Haiti's government doesn't have at the moment.
The decision essentially concludes a case that might have proved divisive in the days when Rap Brown was urging street violence and Atlanta was dominated by a white establishment.
The lawyer, U Nyan Win, said the defense would respond to those arguments on Tuesday, concluding a case that has drawn international condemnation since it opened May 18.
It concludes a case in which the S.E.C. injected itself into a transaction between large financial entities (Goldman and the banks and funds that bought the subprime-mortgage vehicles it peddled) quite capable of defending their own legal interests.
Judge Crotty's reference to Goldman's statements in the settlement shows that companies might not get a complete free pass if the S.E.C. is able to extract at least some small admission of misconduct when it concludes a case.
More than 12 years after a young computer engineer was stabbed to death in the vestibule of his Upper West Side apartment building, a Manhattan jury convicted a homeless man yesterday of a second charge related to the slaying, concluding a case that had languished for years and that had ultimately been decided by the testimony of a fellow panhandler.
Concluding a case that drew national attention to GHB, a drug that has been linked to date rapes, a judge sentenced four young men to prison here today for putting what proved to be a fatal quantity of the substance in the soft drink of an unsuspecting 15-year-old girl a year ago.
A Moscow banker who was charged with hiring gunmen to kill the government official who was regulating his bank was sentenced to 19 years in prison on Thursday, concluding a case seen as important for the country's still opaque and fragmented banking industry.
However, the government successfully concluded a case during Harrison's time in office (against a Tennessee coal company), and had initiated several other cases against trusts.
