With Barclays rigging LIBOR and getting hit with a $450 million fine, let’s take a look at the biggest corporate fines in recent years. Information is Beautiful provides this handy infographic breaking down by sector and settlement size which organizations have taken the hardest hits.
BP is way out in front with the monstrous $34 billion they were charged for their hand in the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster. This year alone though, we have already seen two pharmaceutical fines that are well over the amount Barclays had to pay up.
