Nearly $1M in booze missing from state warehouses

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Spirits are missing from the state inventory and there isn’t a teenager alone in the house to blame. The Office of Auditor General reported Tuesday that slack controls within the Michigan Liquor Control Commission account for nearly $1 million in missing booze from three of the 11 authorized distribution agent warehouses. Those 62,294 missing bottles of liquor made up 20 percent of the total value of state-owned inventory at the time. The total inventory was worth nearly $5 million between the three sites. One warehouse was missing 24,049 of the 78,100 bottles of liquor that were supposed to be there,


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