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A huge hedge fund just settled bribery charges with the feds for $200 million
Och-Ziff Capital Management has agreed to settle charges of bribery, paying nearly $200 million to the Securities and Exchange Commission. The hedge fund's CEO, Dan Och, agreed to pay nearly $2.2 million to settle the charges with the SEC, as did the firm's CFO Joel Frank. "Och-Ziff engaged in complicated, far-reaching schemes to get special access and secure significant deals and profits through corruption,” Andrew J. Ceresney, director at the SEC enforcement division, said in a statement. Och-Ziff was accused of illegally paying "the Libyan Investment Authority sovereign wealth fund to invest in Och-Ziff ... (full story)