UNITED STATES
ABA Journal

Posted Apr 10, 2014
By Debra Cassens Weiss

Law students at the First Amendment clinic at the University of Virginia filed freedom of information requests this week in an effort to unseal 30 secret settlement deals between federal prosecutors and banks and corporations. …

The FOIA requests seek information about government deals with the British bank HSBC, the Las Vegas Sands Corp., the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston, and several other large companies.