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December 4, 1996 | From Times Staff and Wire Reports
The company that holds the government contract to make the nation's highest combat decoration was fined $80,000 for selling 300 bootleg Medals of Honor. H.L.I. Lordship Industries Inc. of Hauppage, N.Y., also will give the government $22,500 it received for illegally selling the bogus medals for $75 apiece at memorabilia shows from 1991 to 1994. "True Medal of Honor recipients and their families have a right to be outraged by [Lordship's] conduct," U.S. District Judge William G.
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December 4, 1996 | From Times Staff and Wire Reports
The company that holds the government contract to make the nation's highest combat decoration was fined $80,000 for selling 300 bootleg Medals of Honor. H.L.I. Lordship Industries Inc. of Hauppage, N.Y., also will give the government $22,500 it received for illegally selling the bogus medals for $75 apiece at memorabilia shows from 1991 to 1994. "True Medal of Honor recipients and their families have a right to be outraged by [Lordship's] conduct," U.S. District Judge William G.
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October 19, 1996 | Associated Press
The company that holds the government contract to manufacture the Medal of Honor, the nation's highest combat decoration, admitted Friday that it sold 300 unauthorized medals for $75 each. H. L. I. Lordship Industries Inc. of Hauppauge, N.Y., said it will plead guilty in federal court Nov. 4 to making unauthorized medals and pay up to $225,000 in fines. Under the plea bargain, there will be no further prosecution of Lordship or any individuals, said its lawyer Frederick Hafetz.
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October 19, 1996 | Associated Press
The company that holds the government contract to manufacture the Medal of Honor, the nation's highest combat decoration, admitted Friday that it sold 300 unauthorized medals for $75 each. H. L. I. Lordship Industries Inc. of Hauppauge, N.Y., said it will plead guilty in federal court Nov. 4 to making unauthorized medals and pay up to $225,000 in fines. Under the plea bargain, there will be no further prosecution of Lordship or any individuals, said its lawyer Frederick Hafetz.
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January 1, 1997 | Associated Press
The Pentagon has announced that it will not do business anymore with a contractor that made bootleg Medals of Honor. It also recommended Monday that H.L.I. Lordship Industries Inc. of Hauppauge, N.Y., be denied any other government work. The company earlier this month admitted that it sold 300 unauthorized copies of the nation's highest combat honor to a dealer who sold the medals at memorabilia shows. The company was fined $80,000 in U.S. District Court in Newark.
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