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The Ashcroft appointment came in a "deferred prosecution agreement," a fast-growing arrangement ripe for abuse.
The inquiry into KPMG, which led to the investigation of Deutsche, resulted in KPMG agreeing to pay $456 million in a deferred prosecution agreement in 2005.
It also showed he had a pension valued at $84.7 million and $73.8 million of previously earned pay in a deferred compensation plan.
Under the deal, Barclays will pay $149 million to the federal government and a separate $149 million in a deferred prosecution agreement with the district attorney in New York, according to the documents.
The investigation was expected to result in a deferred prosecution agreement under which Siemens Electrical, the successor company to Schlesinger-Siemens, would, to resolve the matter, pay about $10 million and agree to reforms, the people with knowledge of the case said.
By participating in a deferred compensation plan, upper management can essentially thumb their noses at these caps.
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Birkenfeld had sought a large payout for his role in a tax-dodging case that resulted in early 2009 in UBS entering into a deferred prosecution agreement and paying $780 million in fines, penalties, interest and restitution.
Prudential Financial entered into a deferred prosecution in 2006 over improper mutual fund trading.
In February 2009, UBS entered into a deferred prosecution agreement with the United States, admitting it had helped taxpayers hide accounts from the Internal Revenue Service.
Mr. Rubinstein's prosecution was the first after UBS in February reached a deferred prosecution agreement with the Justice Department in which the bank agreed to turn over names of more than 150 Americans suspected of dodging taxes.
Those were some of the transgressions uncovered during a two-year investigation led by the Justice and Treasury Departments and acknowledged by HSBC in a settlement, known as a deferred prosecution agreement, that was filed in a federal court in December.
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