Francesca Annis is equally impressive as the wan, emotionally bereft Ruth who has knowingly settled for less.
To settle charges that Andersen knowingly allowed Waste Management to report false information to the public, Andersen agreed to a settlement with the S.E.C., which included an injunction against future wrongdoing.
JP Morgan has agreed to pay a record $2bn to settle charges that it knowingly ignored evidence that convicted fraudster Bernard Madoff's massive Ponzi scheme was "too good to be true".
In early May, Deutsche Bank agreed to pay the United States government more than $200 million to settle accusations that it had knowingly misled the Department of Housing and Urban Development about the quality of mortgages that later defaulted.
The most recent penalty came last week when it paid a record $2bn to settle charges that it had knowingly ignored evidence that convicted fraudster Bernard Madoff's massive Ponzi scheme was "too good to be true".
In the largest case, French bank BNP Paribas agreed to pay $8.9bn in July to settle charges that for years it knowingly violated US sanctions on Iran and Sudan.
Andersen paid hundreds of millions of dollars to settle shareholder lawsuits claiming that the firm knowingly approved questionable accounting at Waste Management and others.
In May Bisys agreed to pay $25 million to settle Securities & Exchange Commission charges that its senior management "knowingly or recklessly" falsified its financial statements and overstated pretax income by $179 million, or 55%, in the three years through June 2003.
THE NEWS GlaxoSmithKline agreed to pay $750 million to settle criminal and civil accusations that for years it knowingly sold contaminated baby ointment and antidepressants that didn't work.
Chiquita Brands International Inc. said Wednesday that it would pay a $25-million 25-millionttle a long-running Justice Department investigation ofineetoer it knowingly paid "protection" money to Colombian paramilitary and rebel groupsettlegnated by the U.S. as terrorist.
GlaxoSmithKline, the British drug giant, has agreed to pay $750 million to settle criminal and civil complaints that the company for years knowingly sold contaminated baby ointment and an ineffective antidepressant — the latest in a growing number of whistle-blower lawsuits that drug makers have settled with multimillion-dollar fines.
