Sentence examples for criminal settlements from inspiring English sources

Halliburton has not reached any civil or criminal settlements related to the accident.

But the civil and criminal settlements still leave Kaydon open to other claims.

In certain instances, Mr. Amey noted, contractors subject to civil and criminal settlements with the department continue to rack up violations.

People close to the situation said the bank and the French agency would pay a combined total of about $575 million, one of the largest financial criminal settlements in history.

In a recent report to clients, the law firm Gibson Dunn & Crutcher calculated that civil cases under the False Claims Act alone brought in more than $4.1 billion in the first six months of 2012, with criminal settlements and payments to states adding $2.7 billion.

Patrick Burns, a spokesman for Taxpayers Against Fraud, an advocacy group for whistle-blowers, said that civil fraud cases, related criminal settlements and recoveries for states exceeded $4 billion last year, and that he believed the number would more than double this year.

The criminal settlement calls for the company to pay a $150 million fine and to forfeit an additional $14 million in assets.

As part of the criminal settlement, Transocean also agreed to pay the National Academy of Sciences and the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation $150 million each.

The government might also consider the exclusion of specific drugs or of the offending company from participation in Medicare and Medicaid after a criminal settlement.

Under the criminal settlement, $2.4 billion paid by BP will go to environmental restoration, overseen by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, a nonprofit organization created by Congress.

In addition, one criminal settlement includes a divestiture agreement, requiring the company to sell one of its Miami hospitals, which had engaged in fraud, according to one complaint.