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...Britain's Serious Fraud Office (SFO) said Thursday it plans to prosecute BAE over allegations - consistently denied by the company - that the company paid millions of dollars in bribes to land lucrative business from countries in Africa and Eastern Europe. The agency will soon ask Britain's Attorney General for permission to start legal proceedings, it said in a short statement. BAE, for its part, would "deal with any issues raised in those proceedings at the appropriate time," the company said in response to the SFO's announcement. "And, if necessary, in court...
...weighing up the likelihood of a successful prosecution against the costs to the taxpayer falls to Baroness Scotland, Britain's Attorney General. That process could itself take weeks, with any resulting case unlikely to come before a judge until next year. "Going the route of formal prosecution is certainly not an easy cut-and-dried process for the SFO," Howard Wheeldon, a senior strategist and aerospace expert at BGC Partners in London, wrote in a note to clients Thursday. Moreover, he suspects, "if BAE allows it to come to court they feel they have a pretty good chance of success...
...year. Lewis, 62, said it was his decision to leave, but no one could miss the huge legal dustup swirling around him over the bank's deal late last year to buy Merrill Lynch. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and New York attorney general Andrew Cuomo have been investigating whether Lewis misled shareholders to gain approval of that acquisition. He could soon face charges in those probes. (See the top 10 crooked CEOs...
...September, Judge Jed Rakoff said he would not accept a settlement that did not name specific executives. New York attorney general Cuomo is reportedly considering pursing his own charges against Lewis and other Bank of America executives on issues surrounding the Merrill acquisition. Pursuant to Rakoff's ruling, the SEC has gone ahead with its case against the bank in general but has yet to name individual executives in the suit. Cuomo recently subpoenaed a number of current and former Bank of America board members. He has not indicated whether he intends to bring charges...
...guard at Ravensbruck, a Nazi concentration camp. She was stripped of her U.S. citizenship but the slow legal process - both Germany and Poland wanted to extradite her - kept her in the the country until 1973, when she was finally sent to West Germany. And even though former Panamanian general Manuel Noriega finished his U.S. prison sentence in 2007, he still remains in jail while the legal system decides whether he should be extradited to France (where he is wanted on money-laundering charges) or repatriated to Panama - where he faces charges of murder and extortion...