Mr. Borrmann's settlement capped a difficult month for McAfee, which was formerly known as Network Associates.
The settlement caps what had otherwise been a widely praised career of public service.
The settlement caps almost a year of hard-nosed and clever maneuvering by the Skype founders.
The settlement caps a six-month investigation that began after hundreds of complaints from consumers, Mr. Spitzer said.
The allotment of the landmark settlement caps one of the longest and most ignominious chapters in American criminal justice history, fleshing out a deal reached in January between New York State and lawyers representing 1,281 former inmates.
The settlement caps a federal investigation and resulting civil rights lawsuit provoked by the January 1999 death of the inmate, Thomas Pizzuto, who was bludgeoned by correction officers after he would not stop begging for methadone.
The settlement caps a lengthy and arduous negotiations process between the firm and the Securities and Exchange Commission and the New York Stock Exchange and makes Bear the last major Wall Street firm to pay fines in connection with improper fund trading practices first uncovered by Eliot Spitzer, the New York attorney general, in 2003.
There are questions, for starters, as to who actually can sue the oil company under the Oil Pollution Act law and whether, in fact, those 11 workers killed on the rig will have their settlements capped by the Death On the High Seas Act.
Although it looked like a May 1999 settlement would cap the costs of those suits, that apparently is not the case.
The industry has a huge amount to gain from a settlement that caps its past liabilities.
The settlement also capped a highly successful term for Ms. Kroes, who has wrung concessions from some of the top U.S. technology companies during her final year in office.
