Michael Moran is the former owner of Wisconsin Dairy State Cheese Company. He was recently sentenced to one year probation and 100 hours of community service after being caught stealing from farmers.
When the USDA sets the price of milk higher than what a cheese plant pays for it, they normally will write a check to the farmers. Moran was forging farmer’s signatures on the backs of those checks and putting them in the bank.
All together he forged 83 farmer’s signatures and ended up stealing $21,250.97. He has since paid back the money he took and also gave up ownership of Wisconsin Dairy State Cheese.
He did have an excuse though, he said that farmers were giving him poor-quality milk and that they’d talk about how they could give him any quality milk they wanted to. The judge in the case told him if that was the case, there were legal ways to go about fixing the problem.
Moran could possibly serve some jail time if he doesn’t follow the guidelines of his probation.
