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Article: Poultry Magnate's Family Feud Erupts into Big Tax-Fraud Case.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
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- January 27, 2003
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By Christina Hoag, The Miami Herald Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Jan. 27--This family saga is like a plot plucked straight from a Latin telenovela.
The characters are the Gutierrezes of Guatemala, one of Central America's richest and most powerful clans who are best known for Pollo Campero, an enormously popular chicken restaurant chain that is rolling out 200 outlets across the United States, including Florida.
But behind Campero's chirpy chick logo lies a deeply bitter feud between the family's aging patriarch and his two nephews.
Against a backdrop of palatial mansions and luxury yachts in South Florida, the plot ...