Posted on 07/24/2015 5:51:45 PM PDT by grundle
Prosecutors are recommending a sentence of life in prison for a peanut executive convicted in a deadly salmonella-poisoning case.
Stewart Parnell, the former owner of Peanut Corporation of America, was convicted last September of knowingly selling truckloads of peanut butter contaminated with salmonella from his plant in Georgia to food processors.
The recommendation for his sentencing, which a lawyer for one of the victims called “unprecedented,” was revealed on Wednesday, the Associated Press reports.
The contaminated peanut butter caused a salmonella outbreak that spanned 46 states and lasted from 2008 to 2009, sparking a massive recall by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
It killed nine people and left more than 700 ill.
After a seven-week trial, Parnell and his brother, food broker Michael Parnell, were both charged with 76 federal counts linked to intentionally shipping peanut products that tested positive for salmonella, CNN reports.
During the trial, federal prosecutors presented more than 1,000 documents, including a March 2007 email from Stewart Parnell to a plant manager about the tainted peanut butter. “Just ship it,” he wrote in the message.
(Excerpt) Read more at yahoo.com ...
Which means he’ll get parole in 2018.
so did he sell peanuts that were KNOWN to have salmonella contamination?
or did he just sell peanuts that they knew had not been roasted to a high enough temperature to ensure that any possible salmonella contamination would be neutralized?
because these are not the same things.
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He shipped peanuts that he knew tested positive for salmonella.
I think that the two of them also deserve an annual colonoscopy treatment, maybe even every 6 months, just to keep them clean you know!
Nope. Feds don’t do parole. Presidents (Dems and Republicans) do, however, pardon folks if the money is right.
The article suggests the former.
That’s by no means definitive.
I’m sorry for the loss of your great aunt.
Hang him? Why not just make him eat his own peanuts?
I’m so sorry.
Thank you for the info on roasting.
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“Parnell’s company defrauded customers by using falsified test results to cover up lab screenings that showed batches of peanut butter contained salmonella. “
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3172724/Life-sentence-urged-peanut-salmonella-case.html
Force him to eat his own peanut butter.
There is no parole in Federal Prison. He will serve at least 85% of the sentence.
Clearly, he didn’t pay off enough Democrat officials. Stupid.
Yeah, I battled E-coli and was hospitalized. I wouldn’t wish it on anyone. Felt I was in labor, again, and lost blood.
he must not have donated enough to Democrats
If he did he could give defective condoms to AIDS patients and be a hero
The peanut industry is heavily regulated by government!
I don’t think so. lot of people put a lot of time and money into the prosecution. They -— I hope —— will have the power and the vigilance to prevent any sleazy leniency.
Stewart Parnell, the former owner of Peanut Corporation of America, should have been convicted of murder and sentenced to publicly hang... and his body left to rot off the noose.
BTTT
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