Former Grey Exec Indicted for Bid-Rigging

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NEW YORK — Former Grey head of print production Mitch Mosallem was indicted by a federal grand jury on Thursday and charged with two counts of conspiracy.

The first count was for allegedly engaging with co-conspirators in a “combination and conspiracy in unreasonable restraint of interstate trade and commerce,” from 1994-2001, according to the indictment. Also charged on this count were print production house Color Wheel and graphic services salesperson John Ghianni.

Specifically, Mosallem and the other defendents, along with co-conspirators, allegedly rigged bids so that Color Wheel, New York, would be the lowest bidder on contracts to supply retouching and separation services for Grey’s client Brown & Williamson Tobacco corp.,



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