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No Truth in Advertising

Jacob Sullum | 7.15.2005 11:18 AM

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Two Ogilvy & Mather executives have received prison sentences of 14 and 18 months, respectively, for overbilling the government. Since they worked on the government's anti-drug ads, overbilling was only a small part of the fraud they perpetrated.

[Thanks to NORML's Allen St. Pierre for the tip.]

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Jacob Sullum is a senior editor at Reason.

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