Restaurants in the Charleston, South Carolina area are facing the heat over alleged fraud.
In an amended federal lawsuit filed by the South Carolina Shrimpers Association that specifically names 25 businesses, they are accused of fraud after allegedly misleading their customers over the source of their shrimp, according to Patrick Phillips and Melissa Rademaker of WIS 10.
The lawsuit says the businesses were “found to be outright fraudulent” after claiming their shrimp was from local sources when it was instead coming from foreign ones…