Posted on 04/22/2005 9:33:15 AM PDT by churchillbuff
Dallas County prosecutors are investigating whether criminal charges should be brought in connection with last year's disclosure of inflated circulation at The Dallas Morning News.
Belo Corp., owner of The News, said Thursday that it received a subpoena this week from the Dallas County district attorney's office. The subpoena seeks "documents related to the previously announced circulation overstatement" at the newspaper, Belo said in a statement announcing its first-quarter earnings.
A spokeswoman for District Attorney Bill Hill confirmed that a grand jury investigation is under way.
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LOL!
Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch - the holier-than-thou types that are always harping on "corporate malfeasance" and "corporate ethics" appear to have no ethical standards of their own.
Good. Maybe that will stop them from calling me at least every other week asking me to subscribe.
Worst part is that Belo bought the Denton Record-Chronicle ("Wretched Chronicle") a cou-ple years ago, got rid of the conservative editor and installed their puppet.
OTOH, they manage to balance the Wicked Witch of the West's (Molly Ivins) columns with Ann Coulter!
Drives the local Dims right up the wall!
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