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Article: Wholesalers agree to New York liquor marketing reforms.
- Article from:
- Food & Drink Weekly
- Article date:
- September 11, 2006
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New York's eight largest liquor wholesalers have agreed to pay $1.6 million and to enact key reforms to resolve state Attorney General Eliot Spitzer's and State Liquor Authority Chairman Daniel Boyle's investigation into illegal marketing practices in the alcohol industry, according to a press release issued Aug. 30 by the AG's office. In the release, Spitzer said, "For decades, pay-to-play practices were rampant in the state's alcohol industry as retailers, wholesalers and suppliers used a variety of schemes to avoid the clear directive of the state's Alcohol Beverage Control Law."
Also in the release, Boyle said, "We remain vigilant in our commitment of ...