According to California's attorney general, Kamala D. Harris, it was the largest fraud settlement in the history of the state's False Claims Act.
In 2008, one of its subsidiaries paid what federal prosecutors called the largest settlement in the history of the coal industry after pleading guilty to safety violations that contributed to the deaths of two miners in a fire in one of its mines.
It was, they said, the largest single settlement in the history of the industry.The payout will be split between the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which owns the site, and Larry Silverstein, its developer, who took over a 99-year lease on its buildings weeks before they were destroyed on September 11th , 2001
A 28-year-old man who was sexually abused by a priest as a child received a compensation payment from the Archdiocese of Dublin of $325,000, the single largest settlement in the history of Ireland's clerical abuse scandals, according to the Irish state broadcaster RTE.
And yet my settlement was the largest settlement in the history of the commission.
And if that weren't enough, the company must pay $53 million to victims of its propane trading scheme the largest manipulation settlement in the history of the CFTC.
David and Goliath comparisons are thrown around with reckless abandon, and in the end there's a $333 million payout the largest direct-action, out-of-court settlement in the history of the US.
The latest settlement is with Charlotte, North Carolina-based Bank of America, which has apparently caved to Holder's demand that they pay between $16 and 17 billion the "largest single federal settlement in the history of corporate America," as the New York Times reports.
I'm thinking of a guy whose health care company, under his watch, famously bilked the Medicare system and earned themselves the largest fraud settlement in the history of the United States.
