Breaching today's compliance mandates will get the CEO more than a slap on the wrist.
And under a Conservative government when criminals are caught, they won't get a slap on the wrist.
God, she explained to Luhrmann, was giving her a little slap on the wrist for her self-satisfaction.
In other words, the erring 11 brokers would walk away, "with not even a slap on the wrist", says Almadro.
Japan received a slap on the wrist from Europe and the U.S. the last time it did so directly and without warning.
It's a mere slap on the wrist long after the fact, said David Clohessy, director of the Survivors Network of those Abuse by Priests.
The federal regulators slap on the wrist against banks has now put AGs in a position to wrap up their own investigation in a similar matter.
What began with a frenzy of allegations, fueled by explicit communications and accompanied by outrage, ended Friday with something less than a slap on the wrist.
Employees who are given a light slap on the wrist for wrongdoings are likely to keep at the behavior or act out even more, she says.
Despite the gaudy sums, the settlements represented a tiny fraction of the damage done to the global economy and a slap on the wrist for these multi-billion dollar institutions.
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What Khuzami needed to do was do a better job of justifying the policy to Congress and a public that often saw these settlements as a slap on the wrist.
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Ms. Hill did not get a slap on the wrist and let off with just paying a certain amount of money but has had to go through this entire criminal prosecution.
Given the economic and political environment, it is still unlikely that Microsoft will get more than a slap on the wrist, even if it hurts more than the company would like.
David Clohessy, director of the Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests (SNAP), described Gomez's decision as unprecedented, but it amounts to a mere slap on the wrist long after the fact.
Offenders know a slap on the wrist or a sternly-raised eyebrow is the worst they face, and when the economy is buzzing again, no one wants to throw sand in the gears.
But this woman only came to the attention of federal authorities because local law enforcement officers arrested her for an infraction that would have normally resulted in a slap on the wrist.
And if anything happens in the future requiring a bailout and rescue of your firm, there will not just be a slap on the wrist and loss of your bonus for a year.
Unfortunately, it would be par for the Bush Administration's course if, having now reluctantly delivered this long-overdue slap on the wrist, the Secretary of State were to be dispatched to Belgrade to smooth ruffled Serbian feathers.
This improved clear-up rate, he says, but effectively created crime, where the behaviour - such as someone riding a bike on the pavement - might previously have been dealt with by a slap on the wrist.
After years of covering up sexual abuse of boys at the hands of assistant coach, Jerry Sandusky, and hundreds of millions of dollars worth of looking the other way, the Penn State football program is getting a sharp slap on the wrist.
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The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the Federal Reserve and the Office of Thrift Supervision announced a separate settlement with 14 mortgage servicers including Bank of America, Citigoup, HSBC, JPMorgan Chase, MetLife Bank, PNC, U.S. Bank, and Wells Fargo that was little more than a slap on the wrist.
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"British regulators barely managed to slap Google on the wrist for this, so yet again British consumers seem to be left with weaker protection of their privacy than other countries, " he said.
In other words, this is not the kind of thing that will just go away with a slap-on-the-wrist civil fine where Goldman does not admit or deny wrongdoing.
This slap-on-the-wrist tactic does not seem to have worked too well, as the banks keep ripping us off.
Slap-on-the-wrist fines notwithstanding, no one is agitating for better privacy laws.
You can slap Lit on your wrist, or mount it in other ways, and the battery is said to keep the logs churning for up to a week.
As leaked to the New York Times and Wall Street Journal this morning, Wall Street and Washington power broker Steven Rattner appears on the verge of walking away from a multi-million bribery scandal with a wrist-slap.
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