Printing Services: Commercial Bribery and Treble Damages

AuthorCecil C. Kuhne III
Pages63-67
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Printing Services:
Commercial Bribery
and Treble Damages
Philip Morris, Inc. v. Grinnell Lithographic Co., Inc.
67 F.Supp.2d 126 (E.D.N.Y. 1999)
is lawsuit arose from a briber y scheme between an employee for Philip
Morris, Inc., and two employees of a vendor that provided printing ser-
vices to the company. Louis Cappelli, who worked in the purchasing
department at Phi lip Morris, took bribes from t wo employees of Grin-
nell Lithographic Co., Inc.—Oliver Munson, who was the president,
and Les Sutorius, who was a salesperson.
For more than ten years, Capelli as an employee of Philip Morris
received weekly bribery payments from Sutorius on behalf of Grinnell.
e sums started at $100 per week in 1979, and increased to $400 a
week for the mid-1988 to 1990 period. Cappelli was also prov ided with

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