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U.S. Officials Probing Other Banks in Shadow of BNP Settlement: FBI Agent
printThe U.S. Justice Department's record $8.9 billion deal with BNP Paribas Monday won't be remembered as an end to a 5-year probe into sanctions busting by foreign institutions. It may not even serve as a halfway mark. With the ink hardly dry on the French bank's guilty pleas, U.S. officials are looking into "a fair amount of conduct" by other financial institutions that could result in formal charges, according to Douglas Leff, assistant special agent in charge of the FBI's New York field office. While a handful of federal and state agencies were involved, the Federal Bureau of Investigation played...
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