The student operators of a local alcohol delivery business remain in hot water after being accused of delivering alcohol to underage Madison residents, causing the early August suspension of a downtown liquor store’s license.

Mark Woulf, a member of the city’s alcohol licensing committee, said University Avenue Liquor’s license was suspended as a result of their business relationship with Campusdrank.com, a short-lived alcohol delivery venture run by University of Wisconsin students Danny Haber and Matthew Siegel.

Campusdrank operated for several months without a liquor license, a legal complaint alleges.

The committee voted to suspend UAL’s license after authorities revealed the wholesaling of their alcoholic products to Campusdrank, Woulf said.

“What I took away from it is that the fault lays on Campusdrank,” Woulf said. “The city really wanted to see where the license was coming from as to who was selling the alcohol.”

According to Campusdrank’s website, which remains active, Haber and Siegel planned to expand operations to Miami, New York City, Los Angeles and Ann Arbor, Mich.

The complaint against Campusdrank alleges Siegel arrived at the apartment of an undercover Madison Police officer acting as an underage woman. When Siegel arrived at the apartment, the complaint says, he then told the undercover officer she “looked over 21 anyway” after she said she did not have identification.

Ald. Mike Verveer, District 4, a fellow member of the Alcohol Liscence Review Committee, had to recuse himself since the complaint mentions the business advice he gave Siegel and Haber before they launched Campusdrank, Woulf said.

Woulf said he believed Verveer’s advice, which Siegel and Haber told police contributed to their decision to start Campusdrank, was more a misinterpretation of the ordinance regulating alcohol sales than an ethical concern.

“I think it was confusion as to how the ordinance was drafted; a case of an alder giving advice,” Woulf said.

Verveer denied the allegations found in Campusdrank’s claim but would not offer further comment.

UW’s Office of the Dean of Students, which typically handles disciplinary action for cases of students in legal hot water, could not comment because of a federal law protecting defendant confidentiality.

Neither Siegel nor Haber could not be reached for comment at press time.