The lawyer said Yaquinto also instructed the payroll and the accounting sections, through the chief of accounting and others, to wire transfer $58,000 of these funds to bank accounts in Moscow, Russia; Tbilisi, Georgia (former USSR); and Chonburi, Thailand. He said a total of 11 wire transfers to these
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L.L. Bean Inc. is facing a breach of warranty lawsuit after changing its decades-old lifetime warranty, in what may be the first of many claims over the now-dead policy. The complaint, filed this week in Chicago federal court, seeks class-action status. The plaintiff, Victor Bondi, is described in the filing as “a
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Gulf nations pledged billions of dollars in financial support to help Iraq rebuild after its war to defeat Islamic State, in what may be an effort to counter Iranian influence there. The United Arab Emirates pledged investments of $5.5 billion in the private sector and $500 million for reconstruction, the country's
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Snap Inc. will finally start giving digital celebrities more data about how popular their posts are — a move that could help reverse an exodus to Instagram. Snap is going to give tens of thousands of digital content creators, known as influencers, information about how often people view their Snapchat
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The Financial Accounting Standards Board today issued its final standard outlining how banks can adjust regulatory capital balances that were affected by the new tax reform law. The issuance of the standard marks a win for the American Bankers Association, which first raised the issue to FASB in
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