Chicago bakery Gonnella accuses ex-employee of helping wife set up shell company to sell overpriced supplies

An ongoing legal dispute pits Chicago’s Gonnella Baking Company against a former employee and his wife’s packaging company, which Gonnella alleges in a new lawsuit is “a sham company formed for the explicit purpose of defrauding Gonnella.”Jeff Hicks was a buyer for Gonnella. In that role, he sourced things like boxes, bags, plastic film and delivery pallets from Sabre…