‘It wasn’t fair’: Leprino Foods heiress says billionaire uncle plotted against her

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DENVER —

As the reclusive billionaire James Leprino looked on Tuesday, one of his nieces told Denver jurors that in 2014 she was “shocked” when Leprino accused his own brother of cheating him and then cut that brother out of the family cheese business.

“The door is shut to you and your sisters doing anything in this building,” James Leprino, the CEO of Leprino Foods, told his niece Nancy Leprino in 2014, she testified.

Nancy Leprino’s voice shook as she read aloud from a letter she wrote to her uncle after that remark,…