{"id":2733,"date":"2010-02-17T17:26:24","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T22:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=2733"},"modified":"2018-01-11T15:52:46","modified_gmt":"2018-01-11T20:52:46","slug":"not-a-single-american-consumer-complained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/02\/17\/not-a-single-american-consumer-complained\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Not a single American consumer complained&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>French wine merchants <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/americas\/8520980.stm\" target=\"_blank\">scam US wine importer<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A dozen French winemakers and traders have been found guilty of a massive scam to sell 18 million bottles of fake Pinot Noir to a leading US buyer.<\/p>\n<p>The judge in Carcassonne, south-west France, said the producers and traders had severely damaged the reputation of the Langedoc region.<\/p>\n<p>The 12 more than doubled profits passing off the wine to E and J Gallo under its Red Bicyclette brand. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The case came to light when French Customs noticed that the winemakers were selling more Pinot Noir to Gallo than was grown within the Langedoc region. Don&#8217;t feel sorry for the fraudsters: along with suspended sentences ranging from 1-6 months and fines from $2,000 to $156,000. The swindle netted over $10 million. It&#8217;s not clear whether they had to repay those profits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French wine merchants scam US wine importer: A dozen French winemakers and traders have been found guilty of a massive scam to sell 18 million bottles of fake Pinot Noir to a leading US buyer. The judge in Carcassonne, south-west France, said the producers and traders had severely damaged the reputation of the Langedoc region. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,1117,13,131],"tags":[343,194],"class_list":["post-2733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-france","category-usa","category-wine","tag-crimeandpunishment","tag-fraud"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-I5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2733"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41661,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2733\/revisions\/41661"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}