St. Louis Post Dispatch David Nicklaus column.
STATION OWNER refuse to put on his knees, BEFORE THE BULLY Chair: Just before Christmas, Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan accused 18 service stations, price gouging. It has threatened to commence, if not a “voluntary compliance with the agreement of $ 1000 and make a donation to the Red Cross.
He seemed like a tactic of bullying at work, similar to those of Missouri Attorney General Jay Nixon used for price gouging settlements of nine stations in September. This tactic to function normally, because $ 1000 seems cheap in comparison with the cost of hiring a lawyer.
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