Luckin Coffee to pay $180M for accounting fraud
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Jaclyn Jaeger2020-12-17T19:44:00
China-based Luckin Coffee has agreed to a $180 million penalty as part of a settlement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to resolve charges related to the coffee chain’s inflated-sales scandal.
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