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Midweek Roundup: US Officials Trim Their Share of Odebrecht Fine, NSA Allegedly Hacked SWIFT, and More
printA Brooklyn federal court ordered Brazil-based conglomerate Odebrecht to pay $2.6 billion to Brazilian, Swiss and U.S. authorities for its role in billions of dollars-worth of global bribery schemes over a 15-year period, but U.S. federal prosecutors cut the share the United States was to receive $260 million to $93 million, The Wall Street Journal said. More The U.S. National Security Agency may have hacked a Dubai-based affiliate of the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication to monitor financial transactions across the Middle East, according to leaked files cited by WIRED. More U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to nominate...
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