Nearly all the restitution offers that the critics have heard about are for $50 a month.
On Monday, her lawyer, Stephen Flamhaft, presented an alternative plan for restitution: an offer of $30,000 up front (money put up by an acquaintance of Ms. Hogan's) and the remainder to be paid over the course of four years, beginning in January.
The separate settlements between the affected condos and the Attorney General's Office, as described in the Times, appear to require the developer to complete the buildings and offer restitution for the damages incurred.
Unlike other East European countries and the Baltic states, Russia did not offer restitution of property after the collapse of Communism.
(A ballot measure in Alaska that would legalize marijuana and offer restitution to those who have served prison time for using it faces stiff opposition).
"And when they failed, as they have done, they did not admit it, they did not apologise, they did not offer restitution.
Cory Booker has proposed giving a savings bond to every American newborn, and has introduced a bill that would legalize marijuana at the federal level, expunge marijuana-related convictions, and offer restitution to communities affected by the drug war.
It allows the government to extract swift penalties from white-collar criminals and offer restitution to victims of fraud; since 2012, the Department of Justice has turned over more than $1.5 billion in forfeited assets to four hundred thousand crime victims, often in cases of corporate criminality.
As a practicing family physician for 36 years, I have come to believe in the seven essential R's of an apology: it should be Rapid (as in right away when the error is discovered), show true Remorse, Recognize explicitly the error, accept Responsibility, acknowledge the Repercussions for the patient, offer Restitution or repair, and close with a Repetition of the opening words: I'm sorry.
"California law is quite clear that a manufacturer has a duty to refund or offer restitution if it can't fix the issue," Berman said.
