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Bennett LeBow

CEO, Brooke Group, owner of Liggett Tobacco Company

Cards: Wall Street Support, Honesty

Bennett LeBow is the CEO of the Brooke Group, which owns Liggett Tobacco. He broke ranks with the rest of the industry in 1996 and settled with some of the attorneys general who had brought Medicaid suits. He has voluntarily agreed to release countless internal industry documents and is now cooperating with the Justice Department. LeBow made these choices in order to save his company.

Bennett LeBow
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