Posted on 08/21/2019 5:07:06 AM PDT by TangoLimaSierra
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — A Missouri farmer blamed for running the largest organic food fraud scheme in U.S. history has died by suicide, weeks before he was to report to federal prison to begin serving a 10-year term, a coroner said Tuesday.
Police officers found Randy Constant dead in a vehicle in his garage at his home in Chillicothe, Missouri on Monday evening, hours after federal investigators held a news conference in Iowa to highlight the prison sentence he had received. Livingston County Coroner Scott Lindley said he concluded that Constant died from carbon monoxide poisoning, and that finding was confirmed by a post-mortem examination at the University of Missouri Medical Center.
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how are they tied to the clintons...
What did he know about the Clintons?
This whole issue has always been a crack up for me. All foods are organic. I let others pay the “label tax”. It makes my food cheaper. The stuff I don’t grow myself, that is.
sold the wrong cucumber to Hillary.
One mention of fraud and you guys instantly think Clinton. I like it. ;<)
>>said he concluded that Constant died from carbon monoxide poisoning
Will his body be used for composting?
Did he use organic carbon monoxide?
>>Prosecutors say Constant falsely marketed non-organic corn and soybeans as certified organic on a massive scale. His sales amounted to 7 percent of organic corn grown in the U.S. in 2016 and 8 percent of the organic soybeans. Overall, from 2010 to 2017, he sold more than 11.5 million bushels of grain, or enough to fill 3,600 rail cars, prosecutors said.
What did the people who say they can taste the difference say?
>>Prosecutors had introduced evidence that Constant often traveled to Las Vegas during the scheme, spending money on gambling and women with whom he had sexual relationships.
What does paying to have sex with women have to do with using non-organic feed for chickens and cows that were then sold as organic?
The prosecutors should’ve been rebuked by the judge for the introduction of salacious claims that had no bearing on the crime under trial.
More “organic food” is consumed in the US each year than is produced.
that there is FU FUnny...
I believe much if not most ‘organic food’ is a fraud.
Actually all food is organic. I mean you’re not eating rocks. Bugs are the hardest thing to get rid of. DDT was the best safest stuff. But of course that Rachel Carson stopped that killing millions (I read billions) with malaria and starvation. It’s what Marxists do.
>>“Randy Constant and his co-conspirators lied to the American public and cheated thousands of consumers,” U.S. Attorney Peter E. Deegan Jr. said. “For years, Constant put personal greed and self-interest above all else.”
Bezos puts personal greed and self-interest above all else
That kind of grain probably went to livestock feed. So he was ripping off other farmers.
She misread “organic”...
“Big organic foods fraud” fraud. The whole organic foods thing is a scam to separate people who don’t know anything about growing plants from their money.
However my neighbor used to have a small section of his farm growing “organic” vegetables. He thought it was pretty profitable. People from the city paid a lot more.
Are they going to play Man of Constant Sorrow at his funeral?
Cold cocked in Chillicothe
By all means dont buy organic, it will make it cheaper for me. Somebody has to eat the GMO cattle feed...
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