NEW YORK (Legal Newsline) - An Illinois man claims a rum company is committing fraud by labeling the age of its product wrong.
Mike Tedeschi filed a class action complaint on June 3 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York again Diageo North America, which manufactures Ron Zacapa 23 Centenario Rum. The suit alleges consumer fraud, deceptive business practices and breaches of express warranty and implied warranty of merchantability.
Tedeschi alleged he purchased Ron Zacapa 23 Centenario Rum "at or exceeding the above-referenced price" because of wanting to consume and use aged rum as is indicated on the labeling of the bottle. Tedeschi alleges that the rum purchased was worth less than what he paid for the product and he would not have paid the amount he did if he had known the product was not of the age and quality guaranteed on the label of the bottle.
Tedeschi seeks for the company to relabel products, monetary damages for costs and expenses including attorney fees and statutory damages. Tedeschi is represented by Spencer Sheehan of Sheehan and Associates, P.C.