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 |  Subject: Outrageous: Thieving U.S. authorities threaten BNP Paribas with $16 billion penaly  Fri Jun 06, 2014 3:53 am | |
| U.S. authorities negotiating with BNP Paribas over alleged sanctions violations at one point suggested that France’s biggest bank pay a penalty as high as $16 billion, according to people familiar with the matter.
While the sources said that number was only proposed as a negotiating tactic in response to an offer from BNP of about $1 billion, the dollar figures being thrown around demonstrate what bankers and their allies say is an alarming trend of ever-increasing record penalties.
A $16 billion settlement would have pushed BNP’s penalty above the biggest ever for a bank — JPMorgan Chase & Co, which paid $13 billion last year to resolve a number of civil mortgage-related allegations.
More recently, authorities have been discussing a settlement with BNP in the range of $10 billion, sources have said. U.S. authorities are probing whether BNP evaded U.S. sanctions relating primarily to Sudan between 2002 and 2009, and whether it stripped out identifying information from wire transfers so they could pass through the U.S. financial system without raising red flags.
The New York State Department of Financial Services, one of the five offices negotiating the settlement with BNP, could receive at least $2 billion of an eventual $10 billion deal, according to a source familiar with the matter. That would be more than three times that office’s $552 million annual budget this year.
A $10 billion fine would almost wipe out BNP’s entire 2013 pretax income of about 8.2 billion euros ($11.2 billion). BNP reserved $1.1 billion against a potential fine.
Representatives of the Justice Department and BNP declined to comment on the negotiations.
http://www.euronews.com/business-newswires/2537976-exclusive-as-bank-fines-soar-us-threatened-16-billion-bnp-penalty/
Give them nothing, file for bankruptcy, reorganize, restructure and rebirth... fuck 'em! Or use half of such a fine for launching a gazillion counter court-cases, buy up all the leading law firms, bury them in litigation for next 50 years!
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| | Subject: Re: Outrageous: Thieving U.S. authorities threaten BNP Paribas with $16 billion penaly Fri Jun 06, 2014 3:59 am | |
| - Quote :
- While the sources said that number was only proposed as a negotiating tactic in response to an offer from BNP of about $1 billion
Call their bluff.
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