"At the end of the day, 12 months is ample time to resolve a case," Travis Tygart, chief executive of the United States Anti-Doping Agency, said before questioning Contador's willingness to compete at the Tour before his case is resolved.
HAYNESWORTH PLEA New England defensive lineman Albert Haynesworth pleaded no contest to a charge of simple assault to resolve a case in which he was accused of touching a waitress's breast while having drinks with friends at a Washington hotel.
"They've never been willing to resolve a case in this way," said Miranda Massie, one of the lawyers.
The new settlement is for $850,000 to resolve a case stemming from the fatal 2004 beating of Tyreece Abney, an inmate at Rikers Island, the family's lawyer said on Friday.
Two members of the Cipriani family, renowned for its string of opulent restaurants in New York and Venice, pleaded guilty to tax evasion yesterday and agreed to pay $10 million in restitution and penalties to resolve a case brought by Robert M. Morgenthau, the district attorney of Manhattan.
The property values police here had just resolved a case of a flagrantly yellow house when they found themselves with another one, hiding in plain sight on Woedee Drive.
The Japanese drug maker Eisai also agreed to pay $11 million to resolve a civil case for off-label marketing of Zonegran after it bought rights to the drug from Elan in 2004, federal prosecutors said.
In borderline situations the matter is difficult to resolve, a number of intermediate cases being known, and there has been much controversy as to the validity of the distinction between the bimolecular and the unimolecular mechanisms.
The effort by JPMorgan Chase's chief executive, Jamie Dimon, to resolve a host of Justice Department cases will most likely result in a multibillion-dollar fine and the usual promises not to violate the law again.
Last May, the government announced a tentative deal under which HCA would pay $745 million to resolve a portion of the civil cases.
