MetLife to pay $10M for ‘longstanding’ accounting errors
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Jaclyn Jaeger2019-12-20T14:08:00
MetLife will pay a civil penalty of $10 million to resolve charges the insurance company violated the books and records and internal accounting controls provisions of federal securities laws.
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