It may not have been the best screening job. At least, the U.S. government doesn’t think so. The Department of Justice is accusing the largest private provider of security checks —in fact, the organization that vetted Edward Snowden—of not doing the job properly, according to Sakthi Prasad of Reuters.
The United States Investigations Services has had a contract with the federal government since 1996 and checks the backgrounds of people applying to work with government agencies, says Prasad,...
Sometimes the goal in negotiation is to improve your fortunes. But sometimes, the best you can hope for is to lessen the fallout from past mistakes.
Take the case of JPMorgan Chase, which in September was threatened with a lawsuit from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) for its sales of troubled mortgage investments during the financial crisis. JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon’s hands-on negotiations to settle the potential charges and avoid a lawsuit, as recounted by Ben Protess and Jessica Silver-Greenberg...
