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NEW YORK, N.Y. – A new lawsuit against JPMorgan Chase & Co. relied on a jailhouse interview with Bernard Madoff to bolster claims that top executives at the nation’s largest bank for many years confronted Madoff about significant concerns in filings with a regulatory agency regarding his private investment business but always backed off because he earned the bank so much money.
In the lawsuit filed Thursday in Manhattan federal court, lawyers for two pension funds quoted Madoff from an in-person interview conducted last fall in Butner, N.C., where Madoff is serving a 150-year prison sentence, as well as telephone interviews conducted with him.
They said Madoff told them that the former chief executive officer at two banks that preceded the formation of JPMorgan and a former JPMorgan board member confronted Madoff in the 1990s and through the next decade, too.
But the lawsuit said they usually raised their concerns “as an after-thought” at the end of luncheon meetings as they passed along concerns raised every quarter by relationship managers at the bank, including the chief risk officer at JPMorgan’s Investment Bank…

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CALGARY – Agrium Inc. (TSX:AGU) has reported a big drop in fourth-quarter net earnings as the fertilizer giant also reported a decline in revenue amid lower prices across all product lines in its wholesale division.
The Calgary-based company reported after markets closed Thursday that net profit for the three months ended Dec. 31 was US$99 million or 66 cents per diluted share, down from US$354 million or $2.34 per diluted share in the same quarter a year ago.
Sales revenue dropped $226 million, or seven per cent to US$2.867 billion from US$3.093 billion.
Included in the quarter’s results was a US$257-million purchase gain for the Viterra acquisition, a $220-million goodwill impairment for the Landmark business in Australia as well and EBITDA loss of $12 million, which included $8-million of integration costs, related to Viterra, it said.
For the full year, Agrium reported net income of US$1.06 billion or US$7.20 per diluted share on sales of US$15.7 billion. That was down from net earnings of US$1…

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