Ad Exec Pleads Guilty in Print Scandal Case

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NEW YORK A former outdoor advertising executive pleaded guilty on Tuesday to a fraud charge relating to his involvement in an alleged conspiracy in which he received about $176,000 in kickbacks from printing company The Color Wheel. That concern has for two years been at the center of a U.S. Department of Justice investigation into bid rigging, fraud, tax evasion and other offenses in the graphics supply industry.

According to the one-count charge filed in U.S.

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