GTE Products Corp. v. Broadway Electrical Supply Co.

The defendants, distributors of electrical supplies from their place of business in Lawrence, fraudulently obtained discounted prices on lightbulbs manufactured by the plaintiff. The defendants accomplished this for eight years through a sham business entity known as Glomar, Inc. (Glo-mar), which they created in 1983.2 From 1983, when the plaintiff first agreed to supply lightbulbs to the. defendants for resale, until 1991, when the defendants’ scheme finally unraveled and the plaintiff terminated the agreement, the defendants regularly submitted claims to the plaintiff for special price…