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Frisco -
Brett Sanders, of Frisco Texas, had to pay a $220 speeding ticket, which he did. However, he chose to pay with more than 20,000 pennies.
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By AFP
New York -
French bank Credit Agricole has agreed to pay $800 million to settle charges it flouted US sanctions in Iran and other countries, a person familiar with the matter said Monday.
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By AFP
Paris -
Flicking your cigarette butt in a Parisian street could from Thursday net you a stiff 68 euro ($75) fine as the city cracks down on "incivility" and pollution.
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The pharmaceutical company Amgen has been fined by U.S. authorities in relation to the advertising of its products. The settlement is $71 million.
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San Diego -
A woman in San Diego has to pay a fine of $15,000 for operating AirBnb rentals. The original fine was more than $20,000, but it was reduced.
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Under a new law, a man in the United Arab Emirates could be fined more than $60,000 for swearing at a colleague on WhatsApp.
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France has warned Google that it must begin enforcing right-to-be-forgotten requests on its worldwide "google.com" site as well as search results for individual countries within the next 15 days. If it fails to comply then sanctions will be imposed.
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Bochum -
A man in Germany was able to avoid being arrested by paying a fine with his slot machine winnings, just as cops were going to arrest him.
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Alghero -
Smokers beware when visiting beautiful Sardinia in Italy. A Danish tourist at the beach recently stubbed out her cigarette in the sand and got hit with a €600 fine for her bad habit.
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By AFP
New York -
New York state's banking regulator Tuesday hit Standard Chartered Bank with a $300 million fine and restrictions on its dollar-clearing business for failing to detect possible money-laundering.
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Vienna -
It seems that the city of Vienna has a problem with pigeons, or is it the pigeons that now have a problem with the city? Anyhow, if you feed a pigeon in Vienna you will now face a fine of 36 euros for your efforts.
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Vienna -
Viennese photographer Daniel S. made the mistake of forgetting a "doggy bag" when taking his dog, Kessja, for a walk in the city. She did what comes naturally on the grassy verge of the road and he got hit by a 470 euro fine.
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Mobile phone company Samsung has been ordered to pay Apple $119.6 million. The order came from a by a U.S. court for Samsung infringing two of Apple's patents.
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By AFP
New York -
A federal judge Thursday approved an agreement between US criminal prosecutors and SAC Capital to settle charges of insider trading in exchange for $1.8 billion in penalties.
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Japan's biggest pharmaceutical company has been hit with a $6 billion penalty for concealing cancer risks associated with its Actos diabetes drug while Eli Lilly and Co, Takeda's co-defendant in the case, was ordered to pay $3 billion in punitive damages.
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By AFP
Brussels -
The European Commission on Wednesday fined 11 producers of high-voltage power cables a total of 300 million euros for operating a cartel that secretly shared out the global market."These companies knew very well that what they were doing was illegal.
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By AFP
London -
A British financial watchdog on Wednesday said it had fined Spanish banking giant Santander almost £12.4 million for mis-advising customers.
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By AFP
Washington -
Toyota Motor Corp.
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By AFP
Washington -
Toyota Motor Corp.
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By AFP
Washington -
Toyota Motor Corp. will pay $1.2 billion to settle US criminal charges that it lied to safety regulators and the public as it tried to cover up deadly accelerator defects.
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By AFP
Washington -
Toyota Motor Corp.
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By AFP
Washington -
Swiss banking giant Credit Suisse has admitted it violated US securities laws and will pay $196 million to settle the charges, the Securities and Exchange Commission said Friday.The SEC action came as the Department of Justice investigates Credit Suiss...
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By Reuters
Panasonic Corp <6752.T> has been fined C$4.7 million ($4.25 million) for rigging bids to supply equipment for Toyota Motor Corp <7203.T> cars made in Canada, the country's Competition Bureau said on Thursday.
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By AFP
Washington -
The US Justice Department hit Japanese tire and rubber parts giant Bridgestone with a $425 million fine Thursday for conspiring to fix the prices of rubber parts used in US-made automobiles.
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By Reuters
Spain's leading telecoms operator Telefonica was fined 500,000 euros on Monday for what the regulator classed as two "very serious" breaches of competition rules in its home market.
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By AFP
New York -
A New York jury on Thursday convicted a former portfolio manager for SAC Capital of insider trading in the government's latest victory against the once-mighty hedge fund.
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By AFP
Washington -
US accounting firm KPMG violated rules aimed at maintaining auditors' independence from their clients and will pay $8.2 million to settle the charges, regulators said Friday.
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In yet another case of from the sublime to the ridiculous, a pub in Brittany, France has been fined by French officials for using "undeclared labor," just because a customer took his own glass back to the bar.
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Driving laws in Spain have become more stringent, but it was unexpected that this would also affect cyclists. This poor guy was cycling to work, munching on a croissant, when he was stopped and fined €100 ($135) for "reckless driving."
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Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc., (JPI) of Titusville, N.J., has been fined $1.6 billion for its role is selling a misbranded drug. The drug in question is Risperdal (risperidone).
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GIANT: Credit Suisse headquarters at Paradeplatz in Zurich, Switzerland. Roland zh/Wikimedia Commons
The Los Angeles Clippers' bench is seen during a game against the Washington Wizards at the Verizon Center in Washington, D.C. in December. Keith Allison/Wikimedia Commons
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