RBC agreed to return $850 million to investors and pay $9.8 million in civil penalties as part of the resolution of multistate litigation alleging it Deceived/Defrauded customers in the marketing and sale of auction rate securities. For more info visit https://web.archive.org/web/20100215075849/http://www.ag.ny.gov/media_center/2008/oct/oct8a_08.html