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May 20, 2015

Citicorp, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Barclays PLC and The Royal Bank of Scotland plc agreed to plead guilty to conspiring to manipulate the price of US dollars and euros exchanged in the foreign currency exchange (FX) spot market and the banks have agreed to pay criminal fines totaling more than $2.5 billion.  A fifth bank, UBS AG, agreed to plead guilty to manipulating the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) and other benchmark interest rates and pay a $203 million criminal penalty.  DOJ

Tagged in: Financial and Investment Fraud,

May 12, 2015

Garfield M. Taylor was sentenced to 13 years in prison and ordered to pay over $28.6 million in restitution for operating a Ponzi scheme that resulted in investors losing money they invested with Taylor and companies he controlled.  In a parallel action, the SEC obtained a civil judgment against Taylor for his fraudulent conduct.  DOJ

Tagged in: Ponzi Schemes,

May 1, 2015

Paris-based BNP Paribas S.A. was ordered to forfeit $8,833,600,000 and pay a $140,000,000 fine for conspiring to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) and the Trading with the Enemy Act (TWEA) by processing billions of dollars of transactions through the US financial system on behalf of Sudanese, Iranian and Cuban entities subject to U.S. economic sanctions.  It is the largest financial penalty ever imposed in a criminal case and the first time a financial institution has been convicted and sentenced for violations of US economic sanctions.  DOJ  

Tagged in: Financial Institution Fraud,

April 21, 2015

R.J. Zavoral & Sons, Inc., John Zavoral, Peter Zavoral and Craig Pietruszewski agreed to pay $1.85 million to resolve allegations they violated the False Claims Act and the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act by making false statements to the Small Business Administration (SBA) and the US Army Corps of Engineers relating to the Heartsville Coulee Diversion construction contract they were awarded for flood control work in and around East Grand Forks, Minnesota.  DOJ

Tagged in: FCA Federal, FIRREA, Government Procurement Fraud, Set-Asides and Preferences,

March 26, 2015

Ebrahim Shabudin, former Chief Operating Officer and Chief Credit Officer of United Commercial Bank, was convicted of securities fraud and other corporate fraud offenses stemming from the failure of the bank.  DOJ

Tagged in: Securities Fraud,

March 25, 2015

Thomas E. Jackson and Preston J. Harrison, operators of Ohio-based Imperial Integrated Health Research and Development LLC, were convicted of defrauding their company’s investors and diverting investors’ funds for their own personal use in connection with their sale of the sports energy drink OXYwater.  DOJ

Tagged in: Securities Fraud,

March 25, 2015

Schlumberger Oilfield Holdings Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Schlumberger Ltd., agreed to enter a guilty plea and pay a $232,708,356 penalty for violating the International Emergency Economic Powers Act by willfully facilitating illegal transactions and engaging in trade with Iran and Sudan.  Whistleblower Insider

Tagged in: Financial and Investment Fraud, Financial Institution Fraud,

March 23, 2015

Former principal vice president of Bechtel Corporation Asem Elgawhary was sentenced to 42 months in prison for accepting $5.2 million in kickbacks to manipulate the competitive bidding process for state-run power contracts in Egypt.  One of the power companies who supplied the bribes, Alstom S.A., pleaded guilty in December to violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.  DOJ

Tagged in: Bribery and Bid-Rigging, FCPA,

March 19, 2015

Bank of New York Mellon agreed to pay $714 million to settle charges the bank engaged in fraud and other misconduct when providing foreign exchange (“FX”) services to its customers.  As part of the settlements with the US and New York, BNYM admitted that contrary to representations to clients that it provided “best rates” and “best execution” for FX transactions, the Bank actually gave clients the worst reported interbank rates of the trading day.  The charges originated in a lawsuit brought by a whistleblower under the New York False Claims Act.  Whistleblower Insider

Tagged in: FCA State, Financial Institution Fraud, Foreign Exchange, Misrepresentations, Whistleblower Case, Whistleblower Rewards,

March 12, 2015

Germany-based Commerzbank AG and its US branch Commerzbank AG New York agreed to forfeit $563 million and pay a $79 million fine for violations of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act and the Bank Secrecy Act relating to its funneling of millions of dollars through the US financial system on behalf of Iranian and Sudanese entities subject to US economic sanctions.  The bank also entered into settlement agreements with the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, and the New York State Department of Financial Services for a combined regulatory payout of $1.45 billion.  Whistleblower Insider

Tagged in: Financial Institution Fraud,

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