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It also became known that the assets seizures began earlier than many had supposed. Several weeks ago, a French court had quietly frozen Iran's $1 billion stake in Eurodif, the large multinational uranium enrichment project in Western Europe, after Iranian leaders failed to meet routine payments. The move...
Now that they are comfortable with their roles as corporate Medicis, sponsoring museum exhibitions and importing culture from the BBC for educational television, the oil companies appear to be going into social welfare programs. When Getty Oil last week signed a consent decree with the Department of Energy, which had...
The DOE fund may soon be swollen like a Christmas stocking with more cash. In the past 22 months, Paul Bloom, 40, the DOE's special counsel, has brought 150 enforcement actions totaling $7.2 billion in claims against 35 large oil companies for violating the complex, controversial federal price...
The DOE's Office of Special Counsel for Compliance, which has more than 400 auditors and 200 lawyers, was set up nearly two years ago to uncover profiteering. Because past efforts nailed few alleged offenders, the DOE turned for advice to a sister agency, the Securities and Exchange Commission...
Though some of its oil competitors criticized Getty for giving in too easily, President Sidney Petersen signed the consent decree at least partly to avoid long litigation and a public relations black eye. Still hanging over the company are more DOE claims of at least $160 million for other alleged...