#McDonald’s CEO fired after affairs with workers fined 0K by SEC

#McDonald’s CEO fired after affairs with workers fined $400K by SEC

“McDonald’s CEO fired after affairs with workers fined $400K by SEC” The Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday charged former McDonald’s chief executive Stephen Easterbrook with making false and misleading statements to investors about the circumstances of his 2019 termination. The SEC hit Easterbrook with a five-year officer and director bar and a $400,000 civil penalty. McDonald’s fired Easterbrook in…

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#Peloton to pay M fine over recall of unsafe treadmill

#Peloton to pay $19M fine over recall of unsafe treadmill

“Peloton to pay $19M fine over recall of unsafe treadmill” Peloton Interactive has agreed to pay a $19 million fine for failing to promptly report a defect with its Tread+ treadmill that could cause serious injury, regulators said Thursday. The Consumer Product Safety Commission, in a statement, said the civil penalty would resolve the agency’s charges that…

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#Facebook fined 7M in Europe over data scraping probe

#Facebook fined $277M in Europe over data scraping probe

“Facebook fined $277M in Europe over data scraping probe” Ireland’s data privacy regulator imposed a $277 million fine on social media giant Facebook on Monday, bringing the total it has fined parent group Meta to about $1.04 billion. The penalty resulted from an investigation, started last year into the discovery of a collated set of personal data…

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#China sentences tycoon Xiao Jianhua to 13 years, fines Tomorrow Holdings .1 billion

#China sentences tycoon Xiao Jianhua to 13 years, fines Tomorrow Holdings $8.1 billion

“China sentences tycoon Xiao Jianhua to 13 years, fines Tomorrow Holdings $8.1 billion” A Shanghai court on Friday sentenced Chinese-Canadian billionaire Xiao Jianhua, not seen in public since 2017, to 13 years in jail and fined his Tomorrow Holdings conglomerate 55.03 billion yuan ($8.1 billion), a record in China. Xiao and Tomorrow Holdings were charged with illegally siphoning away public deposits, betraying the use of entrusted property, and…

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