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The Guinness share-trading fraud was a major business scandal of the 1980s. It involved the manipulation of the London stock market to inflate the price of Guinness shares to thereby assist Guinness's £4 billion takeover bid for the Scottish drinks company Distillers. Four businessmen were convicted of criminal offences for taking part in the ...
The Johnson & Lazarus distillery at 16th Street was the subject of a famous muckraking exposé by Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper in 1858. [8] Distilleries in 19th century New York had to dispose of the tons of organic waste they generated, and their solution was to feed the still hot mash to hundreds of sick old cows and then sell the milk.
The distillery was eventually renamed as the Old Montreal Distillery. [27] In October 2011, Sazerac acquired 32 brands from White Rock Distillery, most notably Ryan's Irish cream liqueur. [28] [29] In May 2012, Sazerac acquired several more brands from White Rock Distillery including Tenure England vodka. [30]
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You can visit or stay in the “Scandal Room” (originally room 214) at The Watergate Hotel in Washington, D.C., where E. Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy communicated with burglars via radio ...
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The last major corruption case in the 1940s occurred in 1947 when a tribunal was called to look into the sale of Locke's Distillery in Kilbeggan, County Westmeath. This sale attracted a lot of attention at the time due to a worldwide shortage of Whiskey, and with its extensive stocks, several foreign syndicates were interested.
[1] [2] The brand was launched by the White Rock Distillery in Lewiston, Maine in 2002. [3] [4] On April 23, 2012 it was announced that Beam Inc. would acquire the Pinnacle brand for $600 million. [5] In January 2013, Beam announced that it would close the former White Rock distillery plant and shift production to Kentucky. [6]