By Jonathan Stempel and Joe Rauch NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal judge ordered Bank of America (BAC) to explain why it agreed to pay $33 million to......
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When all else fails, blame the lawyers…
As we followed yesterday’s “Bonusgate” events before Judge Jed Rakoff over why Bank of America (BAC) failed to disclose as much as $5.8...
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Will judge ever approve Bank of America, SEC settlement?
It looks like top banks are heeding the words of Shakespeare when it comes to the on-going bonus controversy: Blame the lawyers. Recall that...
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- this 17-page letter (http://sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/70858/0...)
- today’s Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/25/business...)
- Urge to merge (http://www.footnoted.org/category/urge-to-...)
- M&A (http://www.footnoted.org/tag/ma/)
- comment letters (http://www.footnoted.org/tag/comment-letters/)
- Blog-reel (http://www.footnoted.org/category/blog-reel/)
- footnoted here (http://www.footnoted.org/sec-stuff/the-sec...)
- this one on Dec. 5 (http://www.footnoted.org/urge-to-merge/mer...)
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