US Settles Nazi &#39;Gold Train&#39; Lawsuit
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The US government has agreed to settle a lawsuit with tens of thousands of Hungarian Holocaust survivors over a trainload of gold, jewelry and other property seized by
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The US division of Germany's Bayer AG agreed to pay a 33 million dollar fine to settle charges it participated in a conspiracy to fix prices of a commonly used chemical for plastics and other goods, US officials said.
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Time Warner Inc., the world&#39;s biggest media company, agreed to pay $210 million to settle a US Justice Department probe into whether its America Online unit improperly booked advertising sales.
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German media conglomerate Bertelsmann AG   said on Wednesday it had settled litigation related  to file-sharing service Napster.
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An Oregon lawyer wrongly arrested for being involved with the 2004 Madrid train bombings has settled a lawsuit against the U.S. government for $2 million, his attorneys told CNN on Wednesday.
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Janus Capital Management agreed Wednesday to pay $100 million to settle allegations by the US Securities and Exchange Commission that the mutual fund company permitted &quot;market timing,&quot; a trading practice at the heart of the mutual fund scandal.
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US unit of the German company also pleads guilty of participating in a price-fixing conspiracy. WASHINGTON, DC  - The Pittsburgh-based subsidiary of Germany&#39;s Bayer AG has agreed to plead guilty and
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The U.S. government has reached a settlement with Holocaust survivors over claims that U.S. Army officers plundered a trainload of family treasures that had been seized by Nazis, both sides told a judge Monday.
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LONDON - Time Warner, the world&#39;s largest media company, is to pay out $510m (Â£260.9m) to US authorities following two federal investigations into its internet unit AOL.
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Microsoft, Google, and Yahoo have agreed to pay a total of $31.5 million to resolve claims that they promoted illegal gambling, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Wednesday.Microsoft will pay $21 million, Google will pay $3 million, and Yahoo will pay $7.5 million, the DOJ said in a news release. The three companies neither contest nor admit that they promoted illegal online gambling by running advertisements for gambling Web sites between 1997 and this year.The settlements stem from an investigation into illegal online gambling by U.S. Attorney Catherine Hanaway of the Eastern District of Missouri, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Internal Revenue Service. Hanaway&#39;s office indicted the founder of Betonsports.com, 10 other people, and four companies on charges of racketeering, conspiracy, and fraud in a crackdown on online gambling on June 1, 2006.Hanaway filed a new indictment against Betonsports, three other companies, and 12 people on June 28 of this year.Unregulated online gambling is illegal in the United States, the DOJ said. The three companies were accused of procuring participants via the advertisements they ran for illegal activity. Those actions fall under the U.S. aiding and abetting statute, the agency said.The Microsoft settlement includes a $4.5 million fine and a $7.5 million contribution to the International Center for Missing and Exploited Children. The company also agreed to create a $9 million online advertising campaign, focused on young people, saying that online gambling is illegal under U.S. law. The campaign will run for three years, beginning in early 2008, the DOJ said.Yahoo has paid $3 million to the U.S. government, and it will provide $4.5 million worth of online advertising to a public-service campaign designed to inform users that operators and participants in online or telephone-based sports and casino-type gambling in the United States may be subject to arrest and prosecution.&quot;These sums add to the over $40 million in forfeitures and back taxes this office has already recovered in recent years from operators of these remote-control illegal gambling enterprises,&quot; Hanaway said in a statement. &quot;Honest taxpayers and gambling industry personnel who do follow the law suffer from those who promote illegal online behavior.&quot;Google said, in a statement, that it has cooperated with the investigation. &quot;While we did not admit any wrongdoing, the Department of Justice has advised that online gambling is illegal in the United States and ads to promote it are improper,&quot; the company said. &quot;Google voluntarily discontinued running such ads, which were a very small part of our AdWords business, in April 2004.&quot;Yahoo said it stopped running ads for gambling sites &quot;years ago,&quot; according to a statement. &quot;After the U.S. Attorney&#39;s Office contacted Yahoo with its concerns, we worked cooperatively over several years to reach this settlement,&quot; the company said.Microsoft was preparing a statement Wednesday afternoon.
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Microsoft, Google and Yahoo have agreed to pay a total of US$31.5 million to resolve claims that they promoted illegal gambling, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Wednesday.
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International Business Machines Corp., the world&#39;s largest seller of computers and related services, said it agreed to settle part of a lawsuit that claimed the company&#39;s pension plan discriminated against older workers.
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Sendo, the British mobile phone manufacturer, and Microsoft today settled a lawsuit in which the US software giant was accused of &quot;plundering&quot; the smaller company&#39;s technology.
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CHICAGO Whitehall Jewellers Incorporated has agreed to pay 13 (m) million dollars to settle a lawsuit and a federal investigation into fraud charges.
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Officials in the nation's capital announced the &#36;425,000 settlement of a lawsuit Monday stemming from a mass arrest that occurred not far from the White House nearly 28 months ago.
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The city settled a lawsuit brought by anti-war groups who were barred from staging a big rally in Central Park during the 2004 Republican National Convention.
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Microsoft Corp, Google Inc and Yahoo  Inc agreed to a settlement worth $31.5 million to resolve  accusations that the companies promoted illegal Internet  gambling, the Justice Department said on Wednesday.