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Earlier this year, Wells Fargo agreed to a $10 million settlement in a separate class-action lawsuit that alleged it improperly added attorney's fees to about 60,000 refinancing loans for veterans.
The defense lawyers say they will also challenge the constitutionality of the death penalty and argue that the judge wrongly removed a juror who had been critical of prosecutors and that he improperly added pressure for a verdict by his unusual decision to direct the jury to deliberate over a weekend.
The court attributed some of that to arithmetic errors but found that Wells Fargo had improperly added charges, including $6,741.67 in commissions to the sheriff's office that were not owed, almost $13,000 in additional interest and fees for 16 unnecessary inspections of the borrowers' property in the 29 months the case was pending.
The City Council agreed to pay for a $100,000 study to determine whether about 900 Moorpark homes were improperly added to a hazard map, and FEMA has agreed to redraw some aspects of it.
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The other dubious Countrywide actions identified by the F.T.C. — pursuing foreclosure improperly, adding fees without notice — also sound familiar to consumer lawyers across the country.
"I don't buy the argument that all data is innocuous until it's used improperly," adds Mr. Vladeck, former director of the Bureau of Consumer Protection at the Federal Trade Commission.
He stated that "Ninth Circuit Court personnel... began corruptly falsifying, forging, and improperly adding to and deleting from the Ninth Circuit Court documentary record... with regard to appeal #99-30210".
The purpose, prosecutors said, was so the Houston company could improperly add $300 million in operating cash flow to a quarterly statement to assuage Wall Street concerns about operating cash flow that lagged earnings.
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Air Force officials announced yesterday that the metal beams on 162 of the fighter jets have flaws -- such as being too thin, too rough or improperly cut -- adding that high-stress flight over the past three decades has exposed the problem.
"Of course I cannot rule out the possibility that a police officer may have acted improperly," he adds, "but this would be an isolated incident".
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