This episode also spawned a lawsuit from the Securities and Exchange Commission that Bank of America, Mr. Lewis and Joseph Price, the former chief financial officer, settled for $150 million.
A great-greatgrandfather, Laurent Allien of Bordeaux, a French Naval Officer, settled on a sugar plantation in Santo Domingo, relocating to New York upon the uprising there in 1789.
When he became a recruit, he wanted to be recognized officially as Aiden Budd, male police officer — settling, at least legally, a question of identity he had struggled with since he was a child.
After a brainstorming session in August, Billings and her team, which now included a former Williams-Sonoma vice president, Tom Bazzone, as chief operating officer, settled on an idea from Kristine Dang, 32, the director of merchandising.
And on Friday, in the Los Angeles courtroom of John F. Walter, a federal District Court judge, representatives for Mr. Mozilo and for two of his top lieutenants — David Sambol, Countrywide's former president, and Eric Sieracki, the company's former chief financial officer — settled those charges.
In December, Mr. Saylor and two other MicroStrategy officials, Sanjeev K. Bansal, the chief operating officer, and Mark Lynch, a former chief financial officer, settled fraud charges filed by the S.E.C., which said they had regularly reported revenue that they knew should not have been reported under accounting rules.
The parents of Michael Brown, the unarmed black teen fatally shot by a Ferguson, Mo., police officer, settled a wrongful-death lawsuit with the city Tuesday, closing the civil case over a killing that stoked nationwide debate about African American deaths at the hands of law enforcement.
The Pentagon is in Northern Virginia, and many retired and active-duty military officers settle nearby.
If the board and the officers settle and the commissioner routinely changes the punishment, the shift to civilian review could be little more than a mock judicial proceeding.
The right of Suffrage in the Election of Members for both Houses shall remain as exercised at present, and each House shall choose its own Speaker, appoint its own Officers, settle its own rules of proceding, and direct Writs of Election for supplying intermediate vacancies.
