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City suspends Moonshiners license amid 50-50 muddle
Attorney calls law "nonsensical"
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Statesboro City Council suspended the city alcoholic beverage license of Club 125 LLC, doing business as Moonshiners, Thursday through Saturday because the club reported more alcoholic beverage sales than non-alcohol sales the first two quarters of this year. Tuesday, during a hearing on the first enforcement action in five years under the city's "50-50 rule," club owner Farid Gharachorloo admitted that he could not bring his past sales into compliance without counting mixers, such as soda, separate from the liquor in mixed drinks. While asserting that the wording in the Alcoholic Beverages Ordinance appears designed to allow this, his attorney, Wesley C. Taulbee, called the rule confusing, poorly written and "nonsensical."
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