Family Businesses: 'Intense Emotions' Often Lead to Strife; Ugly Legal Disputes Divide Family; Valley Usa Struggles Amid Fraud Conviction, Lawsuit
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel › April 04, 2007
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Greenfield - The Poulakos family has been working together for 40 years, first building wooden barrels for the leather tanning industry and now elaborate decks and gazebos that grace some of the most upscale developments in southeastern Wisconsin.
Like any small family business, there were challenges - personality conflicts, differences of opinion, a full-blown schism. But they always played out privately.See the full content of this document
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Family Businesses: 'Intense Emotions' Often Lead to Strife; Ugly Legal Disputes Divide Family; Valley Usa Struggles Amid Fraud Conviction, Lawsuit
Today, Valley USA and the Poulakos family are embroiled in a messy - and public - legal battle that has pit brother against sister and mother against son.
This latest row, which includes claims and counterclaims of embezzlement and fraud, threatens to destroy the company, and worse, what...See the full content of this document
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