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MoneyGram's former chief compliance officer failed to overcome resistance by the firm's sales division against disciplining and terminating agents and outlets suspected of facilitating fraudulent transfers, according to a settlement filed in federal court Wednesday. Thomas Haider, who had notched 16 years at MoneyGram by the time he resigned from the Dallas-headquartered remittance firm in 2008, consented to a $250,000 civil monetary penalty and a 3-year ban from working as a compliance officer to resolve claims by the department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network that he enabled a $128 million telemarketing fraud. The settlement marks the end of contentious legal battle...