Deutsche Bank struck a non-prosecution agreement with federal prosecutors in Manhattan to resolve a federal tax shelter fraud investigation.
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The non-prosecution agreement applies only to Barclays and not to any employees or officers of Barclays or any other individuals.
Indeed, it is becoming not-so-rare for malefactors-turned-government-witnesses to find themselves handsomely rewarded , not only with non-prosecution agreements, but also with some material benefits.
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They are both repeatedly the subject of settlements, consent decrees, non-prosecution agreements, cease and desist orders and the rest of the regulator arsenal.
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The government also filed non-prosecution agreements with Fannie and Freddie themselves, in which the companies agreed not to contest the core allegations that they misstated the amount of subprime loans they held.
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According to the complaint, an unnamed assemblyman entered into a non-prosecution agreement with the U.S. attorney's office in which he agreed to resign his office after the arrests of the defendants charged in the complaint.
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Under this, Zanu-PF moderates, led by Mrs Mujuru, would join forces with the MDC to form a new, nicer coalition government, leaving Mr Mugabe and his generals to retire quietly with promises of fat pensions and non-prosecution.
The government may have already made its point loud and clear by striking the non-prosecution agreements with Fannie and Freddie, Frenkel said, which tell other companies there is a strong benefit to cooperating with the feds and turning over all internal evidence of wrongdoing.
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The indictment of the five men represents the first prosecution of non-Defense Department contractors under the Military Extraterritorial Jurisdiction Act.
It described situations in which beatings and rapes by non-native men were declined for prosecution at a federal level and returned to a tribal court as a misdemeanor.
The First Amendment claim was similarly an argument that his right to freedom of association was unconstitutionally infringed by virtue of the threat of criminal prosecution for mere non-criminal membership.
"This database will be fine-tuned by the government and local prosecution services to determine in which cases the non-localisation is related to crime, as well as cases of migration, re-location for family reasons, natural disasters or others, " she said.
Congress, appellants warn, could force individuals to buy any product, in any market, with any penalty from fines to criminal prosecution for non-compliance.
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As non-parties, we remain free to dismiss the ICC's investigation or prosecution of American citizens as illegitimate.
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