Mr. Richter did not admit to any violations of the law as part of the settlement.

He completed both, and the charges were dropped, although Leykis did not admit guilt as part of the agreement.

And Gateway was not required to admit any fault as part of the settlement.

Ahold, which did not admit any wrongdoing as part of Monday's settlement, is expected to start making payments to shareholders in 2007.

Makhoul later admitted to spying for Hezbollah, as part of a plea bargain.

These represented the "anti-France"; they could not in any way be admitted as part of the French nation.

State Street did not admit any wrongdoing as part of the settlement.

But he admitted as part of his guilty plea in April that he had intentionally taken the material.

It was mainly the Socialist Government in the 1980's that quietly admitted more than one wife per husband as part of its family-reunification policy.

His firm did not admit any wrongdoing as part of the agreement.