Newspaper circulation fraud probe extending to magazines

The U.S. Attorney’s Office probing newspaper circulation practices tied to the Newsday scandal has turned its attention the magazine business. Time Inc. said yesterday that it was hit with a subpoena from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Eastern District of New York in late July. The company is “cooperating fully with the investigation,” said company spokeswoman Dawn Bridges. It could not be determined if Time was the only company hit or whether the probe had expanded to other publishers. There have been three arrests in the Newsday probe, although The Post, the Daily News and The New York Times all had their records subpoenaed. The other major magazine publishers yesterday indicated that they did not believe they had been been contacted by the Feds.

Source: Keith J. Kelly, The New York Post

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