U.S. to Drop Bogus Medal Maker
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NEWARK, N.J. — 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.
Lordship has 30 days to appeal the decision of the U.S. Defense Logistics Agency.
The company has been making 60% of all U.S. military medals and doing $9 million in business with the government each year.
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