N.Y. General Business Law § 332: Penalty for false statement

§ 332. Penalty for false statement. Any person, partnership, limited

partnership, unincorporated joint-stock association or corporation

causing or knowingly permitting his, their or its name or names to be

published in such manner as to indicate or denote that he, they or it is

or are the publisher or publishers of a publication such as specified in

section three hundred and thirty of this article, and not indicating

truly, shall be liable to the same extent as the real publisher or

publishers would be in any suit for damages involving such publication

in the subject-matter thereof brought against such person, partnership,

limited partnership, unincorporated joint-stock association or

corporation as the publisher or publishers, or as the alleged publisher

or publishers of such publication.