WASHINGTON — Arizona and Florida will join a nationwide settlement over foreclosure abuses, officials with direct knowledge say. They will join more than 40 other states in approving a deal to provide relief for many Americans who lost their homes ...

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SEATTLE  — Bank holding company Washington Mutual Inc. has agreed to a settlement with some creditors involved in its Chapter 11 bankruptcy case and has filed a new reorganization plan. Washington Mutual said in a statement late Monday that the ...

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NEW YORK — Morgan Stanley said Tuesday it has reached a settlement with insurance company MBIA Inc. over disputes involving mortgage-backed investments. It was the latest sign that banks are working hard to clean up their balance sheets by getting ...

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A mentally disabled man could get a $3.75 million settlement from the city of Rochester for a wrongful murder conviction. Douglas Warney, who has an IQ of 68, spent more than a decade behind bars after confessing to the stabbing ...

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NEW YORK — A federal judge in New York is casting doubt on the fairness of a $285 million settlement that Citigroup reached with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Judge Jed Rakoff in Manhattan scheduled a Nov. 9 hearing on the deal announced earlier this month.

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ALBANY — New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman says his office has reached agreement with a finance company to clear $3.5 million of debt for 995 soldiers who shopped at a retailer outside the Army's Fort Drum that sold computers and other electronics at inflated prices and credit terms.

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ALBANY — New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said the proposed $8.5 billion Bank of America settlement of investor losses from 530 mortgage-backed securities is “unfair” and trustee Bank of New York Mellon engaged in “repeated fraud” in connection with the securities sale.

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Lawyers who helped the Oneida Indian Nation retrieve ancestral lands in the 1970s are not entitled to higher fees based on revenue the tribe has reaped since the settlement. U.S. District Judge Lawrence E. Kahn for the Northern District of New York ...

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WASHINGTON — A unit of JPMorgan Chase & Co. will pay $228 million to settle civil fraud charges that it rigged dozens of bidding competitions to win business from cities and counties.

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NEW YORK CITY — Bank of America and its Countrywide unit will pay $8.5 billion to settle claims that the lenders sold poor-quality mortgage-backed securities that went sour when the housing market collapsed.

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Wegmans Food Markets has agreed to settle the trademark infringement lawsuit Walgreens filed against the supermarket chain over its use of a logo similar to the one used by the drug store company. Rochester-based Wegmans will stop using the "circle W" logo by June 30, 2012.

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Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman announced a $3.1 million settlement with the pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca following allegations that it improperly marketed and promoted the anti-psychotic drug Seroquel.

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