6 Weeks Before Pullout, Puzzles Over Settlements Last month, the fate of Israeli settlement buildings in Gaza seemed clear, at least to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
Riverstone Holdings, another firm caught up in the case, paid a $30 million settlement last month.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a relatively new regulatory agency, eventually took up an investigation and announced a $185 million settlement this month.
After court-ordered mediation, the two sides reached a tentative settlement last month, although no details will be available until October.
Two unions, the typographers and the photoengravers, approved a new contract in 1999, while two others, the press workers and the Newspaper Guild, reached a settlement last month.
Putnam reached a partial settlement last month with the Securities and Exchange Commission, but trading in its funds is still being investigated by Mr. Spitzer and the State of Massachusetts.
As in previous appearances, she is expected to dodge questions specific to Google and the £130m settlement last month of its UK taxes over 10 years.
Mr. Spitzer won a $1.4 billion settlement last month against major Wall Street firms, including Citigroup, where Mr. Weill is chairman, for having improperly influenced stock sales.
But with the contract settlement last month carrying a 3.5percentt increase in wages and benefits, that quadruple has turned out to be a triple whammy.
Mr. Blumenthal, like other state attorneys general who did not join the settlement earlier this month, had still been reviewing the agreement.
In making a settlement, Riverstone follows its joint venture partner, the politically connected Carlyle Group, which paid a $20 million settlement earlier this month in connection with dealings between the New York State pension fund and investment funds sold under the Carlyle/Riverstone name.
