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Senate Commerce Committee ranking member Ted Cruz, R-Texas, demanded that beer giant Anheuser-Busch InBev (AB) cooperate with the committee’s probe “regarding marketing alcohol to children.”
Cruz sent a letter late Tuesday night to AB InBev CEO Michel Doukeris with regard to what he called the company’s “failure to comply” with the committee’s investigation into the Bud Light-Dylan Mulvaney controversy and called on him to direct AB “to cooperate with the investigation.”
“On May 17, I wrote to Anheuser-Busch [North America] CEO Brendan Whitworth requesting documents and information regarding alarming allegations that Anheuser-Busch was marketing beer to [minors] through its partnership with social media influencer Dylan Mulvaney,” Cruz wrote.
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Senate Commerce Committee ranking member Ted Cruz, R-Texas, demanded that beer giant Anheuser-Busch InBev cooperate with the committee’s probe “regarding marketing alcohol to children.” (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call Inc. via Getty Images/File)
“In response to my letter and at my request, the Code Compliance Review Board (‘CCRB’ or ‘the Board’) of the Beer Institute, an industry-funded lobbyist group representing U.S. brewers, also initiated a review of Anheuser-Busch’s compliance with the beer industry’s self-imposed Advertising and Marketing Code,” Cruz continued.
The Texas Republican wrote that a “dissenting opinion in the CCRB review by retired Judge Paul Summers, the only attorney on the Board, corroborated” his concerns and said Summers “explained ‘Mulvaney appeals to persons below the legal drinking age with a ’special attractiveness.'”
Cruz also said Summers wrote in his dissenting opinion that AB “knew all this, or the company’s ‘leadership should have known,’ and found that Anheuser-Busch ‘violated the Code as to advertising and marketing to people below the legal drinking age.’”
“Meanwhile,…
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