N.Y. Cooperative Corporations Law § 73: Misdemeanor to spread false reports about the finances or management thereof

§ 73. Misdemeanor to spread false reports about the finances or

management thereof. Any person who maliciously and knowingly spreads

false reports about the finances or management or activity of any

cooperative corporation incorporated under or subject to this chapter or

organized under a similar statute of another state, and operating in

this state under due authority, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and be

subject to a fine of not less than one hundred dollars and not more than

one thousand dollars for each such offense; and shall be liable to the

corporation aggrieved in a civil suit in the penal sum of five hundred

dollars for each such offense.