N.Y. General Business Law § 342: Action to restrain and prevent

§ 342. Action to restrain and prevent. The attorney-general may bring

an action in the name and in behalf of the people of the state against

any person, trustee, director, manager or other officer or agent of a

corporation, or against a corporation, foreign or domestic, to restrain

and prevent the doing in this state of any act herein declared to be

illegal, or any act in, toward or for the making or consummation of any

contract, agreement, arrangement or combination herein prohibited,

wherever the same may have been made. In such an action, the court may

award to the plaintiff a sum not in excess of twenty thousand dollars as

an additional allowance.