0 a situation in which a person or organization is forced to pay back money that they have made in an illegal way: --
Through the process of riddling and eventually disgorgement, the dead yeast cells (lees) are removed from the wine while still maintaining the dissolved carbon dioxide gas.
Both companies also agreed to pay a total of $13.1 million, representing a full disgorgement of all of the joint venture's profits during the time the companies were in contempt.
Due to the absence of disgorgement, these wines are generally very cloudy with particles of the sediment of dead yeast cells, known as lees, still present in the wine.
It also obtained $2.8 billion in penalties and disgorgement.
Restitution and disgorgement of profits are used primarily to deter future violations.
They agreed to pay $22 million in penalties, disgorgement, and interest.
Disgorgement is a remedy and not a punishment.
Abrams agreed to pay $2,287,914 in disgorgement, of which $1,498,822 represented the in-the-money benefit from her exercise of backdated option grants, and a $425,000 civil penalty.
