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URBANA, Ill. - BASF Corporation will pay $500,000 to settle a retaliation lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) against Cognis Corporation, the EEOC announced today. BASF acquired Cognis in 2010.

WASHINGTON-The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today announced that it received 99,412 private sector workplace discrimination charges during fiscal year 2012, down slightly from the previous year.

Federal agents arrested a Shirley, Long Island, man this morning on the charge of aiming a laser pointer at two aircraft last August 2012. 1

Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that EVAN ZAUDER, a former sixth-grade teacher at a private school in New Jersey, pled guilty in Manhattan federal court to charges of using the Internet to entice a minor to engage in illegal sexual activity, and to receipt, distribution, and possession of child pornography.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Metro Special Police & Security Services, Inc., a Charlotte-based provider of private security and public safety services, violated federal law by subjecting male employees to sexual harassment,

Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., today announced a $10 million settlement that resolves a three-year investigation into the criminal conduct of SCHLESINGER-SIEMENS ELECTRICAL, LLC[1] (“SSE”), an electrical contracting firm. In the Deferred Prosecution Agreement (DPA) and corresponding Statement of Facts, Siemens Electrical admitted that SSE violated New York State law by filing false documents with the Department of Buildings (“DOB”) and the Department of Environmental Protection (“DEP”).

NEW YORK - Carrols Corporation, the world's largest Burger King franchisee, will pay $2.5 million and take significant remedial steps to settle a sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. The lawsuit alleged discrimination against 89 female employees around the country, many of whom were teenagers when they worked for Carrols.

WASHINGTON – Roland Kaufmann, CEO of Axius Inc., pleaded guilty today in Brooklyn for conspiring to bribe stock brokers, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York Loretta E. Lynch.