By RANDAL C. ARCHIBOLD
Published: February 11, 2010
Western Union will pay $94 million to settle a long-running battle with Arizona over whether the company turned a blind eye to the use of its services in border-related crime.
Under the agreement, in which Western Union admitted no wrongdoing, as much as $50 million will go to support law enforcement agencies working to crack down on drug and human smuggling in Arizona and three other border states. The company also agreed to provide border state prosecutors access to wire transfer records, something the company had resisted but Arizona officials considered crucial to their cases.
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