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N.J.’s two largest wine and liquor wholesalers fined millions for ’rigging the market’; local retailers Roger Wilco and Joe Canal’s also socked with penalties

Allied Beverage Group and Fedway Associates will pay $4 million each after a state investigation.

Patrons practice social distancing as they wait to enter a liquor store on Rt.73 near the Tacony-Palmyra Bridge in Pennsauken in April. Roger Wilco was one of 20 retailers who allegedly benefited from a wholesalers’ rebate scheme, according to the New Jersey Attorney General. The company did not admit wrongdoing in the settlement and fines announced Tuesday. Joe Canal’s Discount Liquor Outlet and Vingo Wine and Spirits were also allegedly involved.
Patrons practice social distancing as they wait to enter a liquor store on Rt.73 near the Tacony-Palmyra Bridge in Pennsauken in April. Roger Wilco was one of 20 retailers who allegedly benefited from a wholesalers’ rebate scheme, according to the New Jersey Attorney General. The company did not admit wrongdoing in the settlement and fines announced Tuesday. Joe Canal’s Discount Liquor Outlet and Vingo Wine and Spirits were also allegedly involved.Read moreTOM GRALISH / Staff Photographer
    by Sam Wood
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