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Violation Tracker Individual Record

Company: Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc.
Current Parent Company: Bank of America
Penalty: $100,000,000
Year: 2002
Date: December 20, 2002
Offense Group: financial offenses
Primary Offense: investor protection violation
Mega-Scandal: Brokerage House Conflicts of Interest
Violation Description: Ten major brokerage houses agreed to take steps to address conflicts of interest in their securities research work and pay $1.3 billion in penalties to settle multistate litigation. The penalties were also announced later by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission after it had approved the settlements; see the Violation Tracker entry for Merrill Lynch at: (click here). That entry shows a total of $200 million for Merrill, which includes a separate $100 million that company had reached with New York State in May 2002.
Level of Government: state
Action Type: agency action
Agency: Multistate Attorneys General Case
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
HQ Country of Current Parent: USA
HQ State of Current Parent: North Carolina
Ownership Structure of Current Parent: publicly traded
Major Industry of Current Parent: financial services
Specific Industry of Current Parent: banking
Source of Data: (click here)
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Current parent company note: Parent-subsidiary relationship is current as of the most recent revision listed in the Update Log.