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On August 21, 2014, the United States Department of Justice announced a record 16.65 billion dollar agreement to resolve civil claims alleged against Bank of America for improperly concealing the risks of mortgage-related securities when it sold them to large institutional investors before and after the 2008 financial meltdown. Separate governmental entities announced unrelated settlements with Goldman Sachs and Standard Chartered Bank, while the Justice Department announced a 13 billion dollar settlement with JP Morgan Chase and a 7 billion dollar settlement with ...
Posted in: DPA

The SEC announced November 12th that it has entered its first DPA (deferred prosecution agreement) with an individual respondent. In a DPA, the SEC rewards substantial assistance to an important investigation by agreeing not to prosecute so long as the cooperator complies with certain specified undertakings. DPAs are part of Enforcement's Cooperation Program, which adopted a suite of tools that are a long-standing part of the white-collar-crime canon. Those tools include:

  • Cooperation Agreements -recommending some credit for substantial assistance;
  • Deferred Prosecution ...
Posted in: DPA, SEC
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