Time Warner sets up $500m legal war chest
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Time Warner has set aside a $500m (Â£272m) war chest to cover regulatory and legal action over accounting practices at its America Online division.
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More than six years after America Online's troubled marriage to Time Warner, investors hurt by accounting tricks before and after the merger will begin to receive proceeds of the company's multibillion-dollar settlement in a huge class-action lawsuit.
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Time Warner Inc. (TWX.N: Quote, Profile, Research) on Wednesday said it agreed to pay $510 million to the US government to resolve criminal and civil charges linked to its America Online unit.
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Time Warner Inc. (TWX), the world&#39;s largest media company, on Wednesday reported a lower third-quarter profit and established a $500 million legal reserve and said it will restate its accounting for its AOL Europe unit prior to 2002.
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Time Warner Inc. has been trying to figure out what to do with its struggling AOL unit for a few years now. A potential combination of Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc. could put even more pressure on the media conglomerate to take action.
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Time Warner Inc. will pay $210 million to settle charges that its America Online unit fraudulently inflated its revenue figures. Separately, it is expected to pay about $300 million to settle SEC charges related to its buyout of a stake held by Germany's Bertelsmann AG in AOL Europe.
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Time Warner has been forced to set aside $500 million to deal with legal costs following investigations into accounting practices at the world&#39;s biggest media company.
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Time Warner Inc. said Wednesday that it is creating a $500 million reserve in response to the federal investigations of its America Online unit and that it also will restate AOL Europe's financial results for 2000 and 2001.  -The Washington Post
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Time Warner Inc. said yesterday that it is creating a $500 million reserve in response to the federal investigations of its America Online unit and that it also will restate AOL Europe&#39;s financial results for 2000 and 2001.
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Time Warner Inc has expressed interest  in selling its equity stake in a subsidiary of Time Warner  Cable back to the cable division worth about $3 billion,  according to a regulatory filing this week.
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The acquisition by Microsoft and Time Warner of a company with a significant portfolio of patents covering digital rights management technologies generates scrutiny by European antitrust regulators. The main focus of the investigation: Microsoft. By Wendy M. Grossman.
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November 05, 2004 - A government investigation into accounting practices at America Online has prompted Time Warner to set aside $500 million to cover the costs of potential fines.
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Time Warner Inc, the world&#39;s largest  media company, will &quot;look hard&quot; in the next 12 to 18 months at  possibly selling off its AOL dial-up Internet access business  after doing the same in Europe.
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WASHINGTON -- Time Warner Inc. Wednesday agreed to pay $510 million to settle criminal and civil charges stemming from an accounting scandal at its America Online division, moving to end a messy affair that
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Time Warner and its AOL subsidiary have reached a settlement with the US Department of Justice (DOJ) that ends an investigation of the company over accounting and disclosure practices.
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Time Warner is nearing settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Justice Department on the accounting scandal in AOL.
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Is 2004 the year Time Warner settled down?