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Company: Newsday, Inc. and Hoy Publications, LLC
Penalty: $15,000,000
Year: 2007
Date: December 18, 2007
Offense Group: competition-related offenses
Primary Offense: fraud
Violation Description: Newsday, Inc. and Hoy Publications, LLC agreed to forfeit $15 million to the United States pursuant to the terms of a non-prosecution agreement that resolved a criminal investigation into allegedly fraudulent circulation-reporting practices by the newspapers.
Level of Government: federal
Action Type: agency action
Agency: U.S. Attorney-Eastern District of New York
Civil or Criminal Case: criminal
Prosecution Agreement: non-prosecution agreement
Facility State: New York
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