neil: And we've had enough, chief executive Neil Bruce said Friday after slashing the company's dividend and reporting its biggest quarterly losses in at least two decades.SNC-Lavalin president and CEO Neil Bruce said he's tired of seeing his employees used as a puck in a political hockey game.' Paul Chiasson / THE CANADIAN PRESS The beleaguered engineering and construction giant has been in the eye of a firestorm that erupted earlier this month when The Globe and Mail reported the Prime Minister's Office pressured former attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould to steer prosecutors toward negotiations with the company, according to The Toronto Star. The company was looking to negotiate a deferred prosecution agreement in connection with fraud and bribery charges linked to business dealings with Moammar Gadhafi's now-toppled regime in Libya. Frankly, they don't deserve it. Bruce said he wasn't holding out much hope for a remediation agreement, which would allow SNC-Lavalin to avoid a criminal trial in exchange for fines and other penalties. But frankly, it doesn't look like that today. Article Continued Below That's certainly at their discretion, he said.
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