Deutsche Bank to fight $14B demand from U.S. authorities

Re:Deutsche Bank to fight $14B demand from U.S. authorities by kuschku on Friday September 16, 2016 @09:38AM (#12513855)

With the way the US suddenly starts demanding dozens of billions from every larger German company right when the TTIP negotiations stopped, this seems like another shakedown.

(Compare fines for GM (several million) to planned fines for VW (around 20 billion), compare fines to US banks to this, etc).

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Re:Deutsche Bank to fight $14B demand from U.S. authorities by kesselvon on Friday September 16, 2016 @11:54AM (#12514866)

VW engaged in some heavy fraud and EU regulations don't allow for class-action style lawsuits like they do in the US. If anything, EU consumers should be angry their governments are kowtowing to Germany over this.

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Re:Deutsche Bank to fight $14B demand from U.S. authorities by easytiger on Friday September 16, 2016 @11:10AM (#12514528)

You will be downvoted here, but this is US economic imperialism in action.

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Re:Deutsche Bank to fight $14B demand from U.S. authorities by adventured on Friday September 16, 2016 @12:54PM (#12515370)

If you were right, the US would not have pursued its own banks for similarly massive fines.

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Re:Deutsche Bank to fight $14B demand from U.S. authorities by kuschku on Friday September 16, 2016 @02:21PM (#12516092)

They haven’t, that’s the point. US companies on average got fines an order of magnitude lower for the exact same thing, or worse.

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Re:Deutsche Bank to fight $14B demand from U.S. authorities by easytiger on Sunday September 18, 2016 @06:17AM (#12524717)

They have not.

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