Word: pleas
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...part of the plea agreement, the Panamanian bank could pay a $5 million fine, giving up most of its $6.7 million net worth. The fine would be the largest U.S. penalty ever paid by a bank on money-laundering charges and would be the first time a foreign bank with no formal operations in the U.S. has been convicted of such violations...
...economic penalties of the law can squeeze some defendants into plea- bargain agreements. Threatened by a RICO indictment and its sweeping forfeitures, the investment-banking firm of Drexel Burnham Lambert pleaded guilty to lesser charges last year and was hit with $650 million in penalties. Equally troubling to RICO targets is the law's ability to seize temporarily the assets of an accused before a trial begins -- even funds that would be used to pay a defense attorney. "Suddenly, there are a lot of born-again civil libertarians on Wall Street," says Michael Waldman, legislative director for Public Citizen Congress...
Thurmond's astonishing plea for equal opportunity failed to sway a majority of the Democratic-controlled Senate Judiciary Committee. Twice the committee deadlocked, 7 to 7, on sending the nomination to the full Senate, effectively killing the appointment of William Lucas, 61, as Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights. Republican committee members denounced the votes as bigoted and based on a double standard. Lucas was turned down, said Attorney General Dick Thornburgh in an angry statement, as a "result of raw politics...
What will the future of the futures market be? Valukas says the Government's investigation has just begun. At least one guilty plea is expected this week, and new cases may be opened. "We have made a substantial and long-term commitment to ensure the integrity of the markets," says Valukas. "I'll let the convictions do the talking...
After the tragedy, her son Stephen Nodvin, a research ecologist in Knoxville, wrote a moving three-page plea to his Congressman. He conceded that his mother might have found another way to end her life, but said her depression would probably have been cured had a gun not been so easily available. He protested the casual way in which she was able to acquire the fatal weapon: "No waiting period was enforced, no mental or criminal checks were made, and the salesperson even loaded the bullets into the gun. Mom died that day because of the totally irresponsible attitude that...