Sentence examples for corporate settlement from inspiring English sources

The median corporate settlement in 2003 to 2005 was well over $50 million.

The agreement announced by the S.E.C. is the second big corporate settlement it has recently completed.

It is not unusual for the government to require an external monitor as part of a corporate settlement.

The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee demanded that former Attorney General John Ashcroft testify about his appointment to oversee a Justice Department corporate settlement.

The upcoming JPMorgan Chase settlement is expected to be the largest corporate settlement in Justice Department history.

Indigenous peoples in Ecuador and Bolivia had a particularly rousing set of victories, while the people of Cochabamba, Bolivia, astonishingly, defeated U.S.-based Bechtel Corporation's privatization of their water, and Ecuadorans are suing Chevron for environmental devastation in what could be the biggest corporate settlement in history -- $27 billion.

Of the 10 largest corporate settlements, nine have involved companies outside the United States.

It remains to be seen whether the guidance will, in practice, reduce the use of monitorships in corporate settlements.

In March he told Congress that corporate settlements do too little to deter fraud cash fines, he claimed, have become a mere "cost of doing business".

As noted in a January, 2013, report on corporate settlements published by the U.S. Public Interest Research Group, in 2003 the S.E.C. supposedly instated a policy requiring that its settlements include language that makes clear that penalty payments are not tax deductible.

Our leader and briefing on corporate settlements, which argued that "companies must be punished when they do wrong, but the legal system has become an extortion racket", prompted lots of readers to write in.