Sentence examples for corporate plea from inspiring English sources
A corporate plea deal may free time, and money, for pursuing them.
Wrangling over waivers is an important part of the negotiations when companies accused of fraud discuss a settlement with the S.E.C., and sometimes it can involve a form of corporate plea bargaining to a lesser charge.
And HSBC's money laundering case involved neither a corporate guilty plea nor any direct action against individuals responsible for long-running practices.
Even the case against UBS — which did involve a rare, corporate guilty plea — was structured so that a foreign subsidiary with no real exposure to the United States was used to limit the potential consequences to the broader organization.
In theory, size alone shouldn't prevent corporate guilty pleas to crimes.
And in early 2014, a ruptured pipe at a Duke Energy plant in North Carolina led to 39,000 tons of ash pouring into the Dan River; that spill led to a $102 million settlement with the federal government, corporate guilty pleas by three Duke subsidiaries, and additional cleanup work at three other power plants.
The defendant, Bonnie Hoxie, 33, formerly the secretary to Disney's head of corporate communications, entered the plea in United States District Court in Manhattan in a plea deal with the government.
Boards of trustees, being committees, are more likely to produce CSR waffle.Mr Mayer saves his argument by linking it to a wider plea for corporate pluralism.
Re "Airline Bailout Encourages Other Industries to Lobby for Government Assistance" (news article, Sept. 27): Isn't it time for us to give in to our corporate leaders' often-stated plea that our government stop interfering with business?
It lists 2,163 corporate convictions and guilty pleas and shows that both the number of convictions and the size of the fines have grown impressively over the period.
Ms. O'Sullivan has worked with the United States Sentencing Commission and the American Bar Association on projects related to corporate sentencing and guilty pleas.
