As Walmart Inc. shakes up its global compliance department, the retailer is being sued along with Target Corp. and importer LaRose Industries by New York State Attorney General Barbara Underwood for allegedly selling toys that contained more than 10 times the federal legal limit of lead.

The toys already were recalled by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. But the suit filed on Thursday in state Supreme Court in Albany County still seeks civil penalties and a court order to require the companies to implement additional compliance measures ensuring that they do not again sell toys containing high lead levels.

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