{"id":7690,"date":"2012-09-26T09:37:17","date_gmt":"2012-09-26T14:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.guysdrinkingbeer.com\/?p=7690"},"modified":"2021-08-27T13:50:49","modified_gmt":"2021-08-27T18:50:49","slug":"latest-city-beverage-document-blasts-ilcc-legal-division","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.guysdrinkingbeer.com\/latest-city-beverage-document-blasts-ilcc-legal-division\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest City Beverage Document Blasts ILCC Legal Division"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In what we imagine is the legal equivalent to pointing at your counterparts and yelling, &#8220;you suck,&#8221; attorneys for Wholesaler Equity Development Corporation or WEDCO took the Illinois Liquor Control Commission&#8217;s legal division to task in a recently released document (below) in the ongoing City Beverage dispute before The Commission.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a snippet.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.guysdrinkingbeer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/respondents.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-7691 size-full\" title=\"respondents\" src=\"https:\/\/www.guysdrinkingbeer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/respondents.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"527\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.guysdrinkingbeer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/respondents.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.guysdrinkingbeer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/respondents-600x309.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.guysdrinkingbeer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/respondents-768x395.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We presume this is the last, if not one of the last documents to be released before the Liquor Control Commission meets on Monday to decide the fate of Anheuser-Busch&#8217;s minority interest but reported majority control of Illinois distributor City Beverage.<\/p>\n<p>WEDCO, a wholly owned subsidiary of Anheuser-Busch, has a 30-percent interest in City &#8211; which has four wholesalers in the state.<\/p>\n<p>Over the summer The Commission cited WEDCO for violating the Illinois Liquor Control Act. 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