Charities Get Millions From Sun-Times Settlement
November 16, 2006 | Read Time: 1 minute
Ten charities will receive a total of $4.8-million from the Chicago Sun-Times through the settlement of a lawsuit over falsified circulation numbers, reports the Sun-Times.
The recipient organizations are mostly involved in legal aid and education. Two groups, the Chicago Bar Foundation and the Abraham Lincoln Marovitz Lend-a-Hand Program, will receive $2-million each, while the remaining $800,000 will be divided up among the eight other organizations.
The $4.8-million settlement stems from a $31.8-million lawsuit won by advertisers against the newspaper. The Sun-Times’s publisher, John Cruickshank, admitted the newspaper had inflated circulation numbers by up to 50,000 copies a day under the direction of the former publisher, F. David Radler.
