After an 11-month investigation, Marcus Dairy of Connecticut has reached an out-of-court deal with the Department of Consumer Protection. The dairy was charged by a competitor of inflating the cost of providing milk for a school district.
The deal doesn’t include any admission of overcharges by the dairy, but does include a gift of $10,000 to the consumer protection department and a reimbursement of $6,487.94 to the school.
According to a News-Times article by Ken Dixon, the dairy’s owner maintained that the check to the school was not a refund or overcharge.
After auditing the accounts, the owner and the commissioner agreed that the money accounts for some grey area that the school would be owed if a different billing formula had been used.
Douglas Wade, the co-owner of Wade's Dairy and the man who started the investigation, was less than satisfied with the outcome, saying that he believed the school district was owed $28,000 in overcharges.
The school district may seek a new milk supplier as a result of the investigation. PD
—Summarized by PD staff from cited source
