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Violation Tracker Current Parent Company Summary
Current Parent Company Name: Altria
Ownership Structure: publicly traded (ticker symbol MO)
Headquartered in: Virginia
Major Industry: tobacco
Specific Industry: tobacco
Penalty total since 2000: $1,267,909,720
Number of records: 10
| Top 5 Offense Groups (Groups Defined) | Penalty Total | Number of Records |
| competition-related offenses | $1,215,600,000 | 3 |
| safety-related offenses | $51,964,720 | 4 |
| financial offenses | $339,000 | 2 |
| environment-related offenses | $6,000 | 1 |
| Top 5 Primary Offense Types | Penalty Total | Number of Records |
| price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | $1,215,600,000 | 3 |
| product safety violation | $45,531,250 | 1 |
| tobacco litigation | $6,421,000 | 2 |
| tax violations | $339,000 | 2 |
| workplace safety or health violation | $12,470 | 1 |
Notes: Parent-subsidiary linkages are based on relationships current as of the latest revision listed in the
Update Log, which may vary from what was the case when a violation occurred. The penalty totals are adjusted to account for the fact that the individual entries below may include both agency records and settlement announcements for the same case; or else a penalty covering multiple locations may be listed in the individual records for each of the facilities. The totals are also adjusted to reflect cases in which federal and state or local agencies cooperated and issued separate announcements of the outcome. Duplicate or overlapping penalty amounts are marked with an asterisk in the list below.
Links: For a summary of this company's regulatory penalties in more than 50 other countries, see its Violation Tracker Global summary page
here.
Subsidy Tracker data on financial assistance to this company by federal, state and local government agencies can be found
here.
Individual Penalty Records:
Click on the company or penalty amount for more information on each case.
| Company | Primary Offense Type | Year | Agency | Penalty Amount  |
| U.S. Tobacco Co. | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2002 | private lawsuit-federal | $1,050,000,000 |
| UST Inc. | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2008 | private lawsuit-state | $96,000,000 |
| Philip Morris USA Inc. | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2003 | private lawsuit-federal | $69,600,000 |
| Altria Group | product safety violation | 2024 | private lawsuit-federal | $45,531,250 |
| Philip Morris USA | tobacco litigation | 2011 | DOJ_CIVIL | $6,250,000 |
| John Middleton Co. | tax violations | 2010 | ATTTB | $315,000 |
| U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company | tobacco litigation | 2002 | CA-AG | $171,000 |
| John Middleton, Inc. | tax violations | 2005 | ATTTB | $24,000 |
| PHILLIP MORRIS USA | workplace safety or health violation | 2018 | OSHA | $12,470 |
| UST, Inc. | environmental violation | 2022 | TN-ENV | $6,000 |
