Inside the Public Sheehan Family Feud

Dear Client: Family businesses can be tough, particularly when the patriarch has 8 children. The Sheehan Family Cos. is one of the largest -- if not the largest -- craft beer distributorships in the country, with 19 distributorships from Boston to San Diego, many of them statewide (plus A-B in parts of Mass and NY) with over a billion in revenues and 2k employees.  Family patriarch Jerry Sheehan, 89, and his wife, Maureen, own the sprawling company with their 8