General Electric reaches $1.5B ‘agreement in principle’ with DOJ
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Jaclyn Jaeger2019-01-31T13:30:00
General Electric has reached “an agreement in principle” with the Department of Justice, with GE to pay a civil penalty of $1.5 billion concerning its now-defunct WMC mortgage business, the company announced in an earnings report today.
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