The Color Wheel and Its Owner Plead Guilty

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NEW YORK — Haluk Ergulec, the owner of the Color Wheel, today pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to conspiring to rig bids and reserve contracts for other companies doing business with Grey Worldwide. The charges were in connection to work on clients such as Brown & Williamson, among others, from late 1991 until 2001. The Color Wheel itself also pleaded guilty to similar charges.

Lawyers for Ergulec’s alleged co-conspirators — Mitch Mosallem, a former evp and director of graphic services at Grey, Birj Deckmejian, a former salesman for The Color Wheel, and John Ghianni, a former salesman for Quality House of Graphics, a graphics supply company based in Long Island City — are continuing to maintain their not-guilty pleas.

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