Harold MacKay is using the Downeast Beer Factory to bilk investors, alleges lawsuit

August 7, 2017 By Tim Bousquet

Harold MacKay, the founder and president of the Downeast Beer Factory, is using the brewery and restaurant to bilk investors, one of those investors claims in a lawsuit filed Friday with the Nova Scotia Supreme Court. “Basically, this business was never set up to return money to the investors; this was set up as a way…

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