"...remove him , remove his claws first"
Posted on 05/17/2018 2:08:43 AM PDT by Enterprise
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- U.S. prosecutors filed a criminal charge Wednesday against the CEO of Bumble Bee Foods as part of an ongoing investigation into price fixing in the packaged seafood industry.
A grand jury in San Francisco indicted Christopher Lischewski on one count of price fixing, alleging that from November 2010 to December 2013 he conspired with others in the industry to eliminate competition by setting prices for canned tuna.
Three other people, including a former StarKist tuna company executive, have previously been charged. Stephen Hodge, a former senior vice president for sales at StarKist, pleaded guilty last year to price-fixing
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Lock Pelosi up!
Her name came to mind when I posted the article.
They conducted a sting operation.
"...remove him , remove his claws first"
You knew that was coming.
Unfortunately he got hooked in the scheme too.
Pardon me, but I’m going to tuna out before this thread opens up a can of whoop-ass bad puns.
I’ll never forgive BB when they bought Stinson and closed it.
End of a long era.
http://goingcoastal.bangordailynews.com/2013/10/25/fisheries/legendary-sardine-cannery-worker-dies/
Pelosi is part of “Big Tuna” and Kerry is part of “Big Condiments”
Western Pacific tuna fleets are catching skipjack. And I think Bumblebee was one of the purchasers of skipjack in large quantities. Now this was in the eighties, but my take away from conversations I had with people in and around the ports on these tiny little islands that we was that tuna fish has a lot of skipjack in it which, is a type of tuna but a very low quality.
Guess you had to “BEE” there ...
Sounds fishy.....
Yup....just stinks...
And netted a few bad guys in the process.
Tuna....fixed prices?? A buck a can....have never paid more but sometimes less. I buy aldi Northern Catch...59 cents.
The FBI is spying on and wiretapping one of the major parties in the U.S. Presidential campaign. Somehow price fixing a can of tuna doesn’t seem very important. But, probably the Bumble Bee guy will do hard time while the heads of the CIA/FBI who attempted a coup will walk.
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