Indicted Ad Executives Plead Not Guilty

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NEW YORK Two former executives of WPP Group’s Ogilvy & Mather entered not guilty pleas to charges stemming from a grand jury indictment surrounding the agency’s work for the White House Office of National Control Drug Policy.

Appearing before U.S. District Court Judge Richard Berman in New York on Wednesday, Shona Seifert, formerly senior partner and executive group director at Ogilvy in New York, and Thomas Early, who resigned today as senior partner and director of finance for the agency, both pleaded not guilty to conspiracy to defraud the United States.

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