3 More Are Fired in Insider Case

Printer R. R. Donnelley & Sons has fired three more production workers that it believes helped leak advance copies of an influential Business Week column to a stockbroker, a company official said Wednesday.

The firings late last week of three workers at Donnelley’s Old Saybrook, Conn., plant brought to seven the number of Donnelley employees who have either been fired or resigned in connection with the company’s investigation.

Arthur Prine, a spokesman for the Chicago-based printer, said Donnelley had exhausted all of its leads but was continuing to cooperate with a Securities and Exchange Commission investigation.

Prine said the three were involved in passing advance copies of Business Week to William Dillon, a former Merrill Lynch & Co. stockbroker who allegedly traded on the information.

No criminal charges have been filed against any of the fired workers. Donnelley said it is considering pressing charges for theft.