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Violation Tracker Individual Record

Company: Premier Manufacturing, Inc.
Penalty: $3,100,000
Year: 2007
Date: December 4, 2007
Offense Group: government-contracting-related offenses
Primary Offense: False Claims Act and related
Secondary Offense: excise tax violation
Violation Description: Premier Manufacturing, Inc., a South Carolina cigarette importer, agreed to pay an additional $3.1 million to settle civil claims that between 1995 and 2002 it deliberately understated the weights of cigarettes that it imported.
Level of Government: federal
Action Type: agency action
Agency: Justice Department Civil Division
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
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