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Feds probe chargesagainst Coca-Cola
ATLANTA -- Federal prosecutors have launched a criminal investigation into fraud allegations raised by a whistleblower's lawsuit against Coca-Cola Co.
After the world's largest soft-drink company announced Friday that the U.S. attorney's office was investigating, Burger King said it would phase out the sale of Frozen Coke at its restaurants and stop using Coke's frozen carbonated beverage machines.
Among the allegations raised in the whistleblower's lawsuit was that Coke employees rigged a market test to inflate the popularity of Frozen Coke at Burger King outlets in Virginia. The whistleblower also said some of Coke's machines that make the frozen drinks are defective, a claim Coke denies.
Windmill developerappeals zoning decision
SOMERSET, Pa. -- A developer who wants to put up eight power-producing windmills near an airport is appealing a zoning decision blocking the proposal.
Generation Resources Holding Co., of Leawood, Kan., wants to erect the windmills as part of a $70 million, 30-turbine wind farm near the Somerset County Airport, about 55 miles southeast of Pittsburgh.
In April, the county's Zoning Hearing Board agreed with some area pilots who argued that the 387-foot-high turbines could create a hazard since they would be a few miles from the airport. The board rejected the proposal, saying the turbines would violate an ordinance, and the developer went to court to ask that the decision be reversed.
Somerset lawyer Lois Geary, who is representing the company, said a previous decision by the Federal Aviation Administration that said the project is safe should overrule any local objections. Opponents, argued the zoning board considered impacts the FAA did not take into account.
The Kansas company says denying the zoning variance could cost it millions of dollars already spent on site planning.
Judge Kim Gibson has not ruled on the appeal.
Associated Press