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Bank of America fined $1.21 billion as regulators cite failures involving $5 billion in suspicious activity: What went wrong?

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Bank of America faces a $1.21 billion US fine over failures to report suspicious transactions, with the penalty expected to hurt quarterly earnings.. Photographer: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg (Bloomberg)

Bank of America has been fined $1.21 billion by US regulators over failures to detect and report suspicious financial activity, including transactions worth more than $5 billion, as per Reuters. Bank of America faces a $1.21 billion US fine over failures to report suspicious transactions, with the penalty expected to hurt quarterly earnings.. Photographer: Michael … Read more

South West Water fined £7.8 million over hundreds of sewage spills across Devon and Cornwall after 18 charges, including 231 discharges at Harlyn beach and more than 336 illegal spills near Bodmin

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South West Water fined £7.8 million over hundreds of sewage spills across Devon and Cornwall after 18 charges, including 231 discharges at Harlyn beach and more than 336 illegal spills near Bodmin

South West Water pleaded guilty to 18 charges linked to pollution incidents between 2015 and 2021. (Photo: Shutterstock) South West Water has been fined £7,867,733 for hundreds of illegal sewage spills across Devon and Cornwall, with a judge describing the company’s management failures as reckless. The record penalty is the largest ever imposed for environmental … Read more

Ex-White House teleprompter operator fined $65,000 for betting on Trump speeches

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Ex-White House teleprompter operator fined $65,000 for betting on Trump speeches

Former White House teleprompter operator Gabriel Perez. A former White House teleprompter operator has been ordered to surrender more than USD 107,000 in profits and pay a USD 65,000 fine for using information about Donald Trump’s upcoming speeches to place bets on prediction market Kalshi.According to the BBC, Gabriel Perez made trades predicting words and … Read more

Woman seen dumping garbage in a lake in Canada’s Abbotsford fined for $1000, police sergeant says ‘don’t make it a race thing’

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Woman seen dumping garbage in a lake in Canada's Abbotsford fined for $1000, police sergeant says 'don't make it a race thing'

A woman was seen littering a lake in Canada in a viral video that sparked major outrage. The woman who was seen nonchalantly emptying her Dollar store bag into Mill Lake in Abbotford has been fined for $1000 as she was issued two violation tickets. The police said they won’t release the identity of the … Read more

California man’s front-yard food forest was approved by his HOA; a new board later fined him $750 for the same garden

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California man’s front-yard food forest was approved by his HOA; a new board later fined him $750 for the same garden

For Michael Sherman, the front yard of his Chino, California, home is not simply landscaping. It is a “food forest” filled with plants that produce food for his family and, at times, for his neighbours. But after years of maintaining the garden, Sherman found himself facing complaints and fines over the same landscape he said … Read more