Article: Fleishman's woes in L.A. unlikely to garner much attention from its multinational parent.

Wall Street is not much interested in the overbilling scandal at Fleishman-Hillard's Los Angeles office. It involves, after all, only a few people from a single office of a single division of the global giant Omnicom Group Inc.--a company made up of hundreds of individual units.

Omnicom stock hit a 52-week high of $87.39 a share on Jan. 18, five days after John Stodder, a former Fleishman vice president, was indicted on charges that he fraudulently billed L.A.'s Department of Water & Power on a $3 million annual public relations contract.

A $3 million contract for a conglomerate with revenues expected to reach more than $10 billion this year is not a ...

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