Peanut Exec gets 28 years for covering up salmonella outbreak (1 Viewer)

[fantasycurse42]

All details can be found in Wiki; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peanut_Corporation_of_America

Story and video can be found here

Pretty crazy stuff - harshest food-safety penalty ever handed down.

 

[FlapJacks]

now if they could do the same to those who caused the 2008 financial crisis...

 

[BowieMercs]

Those Dbags remind me of that compounding pharmacy that had tainted meds. Public safety is a myth.

 

[fantasycurse42]

I like the renewed focus on white collar crime. These guys do way more harm than some dude who robs a bank.

They go after this guy bc he's an easier target/smaller fish/less influence than auto/financial executives.

 

[stbugs]

All details can be found in Wiki; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peanut_Corporation_of_America

Story and video can be found here

Pretty crazy stuff - harshest food-safety penalty ever handed down.

Scary that the CEO was appointed to the Peanut Standards Board for the US Agriculture department by the Secretary of Agriculture. No wonder why they were around so long. It basically took an outbreak causing 9 deaths for them to actually be shut down.

 

[stbugs]

I like the renewed focus on white collar crime. These guys do way more harm than some dude who robs a bank.

They go after this guy bc he's an easier target/smaller fish/less influence than auto/financial executives.

Did you read the article? He should have been gone after. Not saying others shouldn't, but I don't see this guy as an easier target. See my post above, he seemed pretty well connected. It took people dying and a huge hit to the peanut industry for this guy to go down.

 

[Cliff Clavin]

That is nuts.

 

[fantasycurse42]

I like the renewed focus on white collar crime. These guys do way more harm than some dude who robs a bank.

They go after this guy bc he's an easier target/smaller fish/less influence than auto/financial executives.

Did you read the article? He should have been gone after. Not saying others shouldn't, but I don't see this guy as an easier target. See my post above, he seemed pretty well connected. It took people dying and a huge hit to the peanut industry for this guy to go down.

I'm not saying he is an "easy" target (just an easier target) - I'm saying big finance / auto executives are basically untouchable and they commit some heinous crimes. The heads of banks and auto are connected at the highest levels and under almost any circumstance would never face more than a fine, even an 8 figure fine would be like a fart in the wind to most of them.

 

[IvanKaramazov]

I don't understand the hangup on auto executives. Is this because of the VW story or something else?

 

[NCCommish]

Seems like justice prevailed

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

I don't understand the hangup on auto executives. Is this because of the VW story or something else?

Killing people with tainted peanuts is in a legume of its own.

 

[zamboni]

He'll be out of jail in a jiffy.

 

[Cold Dead Hands]

He'll be out of jail in a jiffy.

Not unless he can fly out like Peter Pan.

 

[Ignoramus]

That is nuts.

Legumes, actually.

 

[Joe Summer]

He didn't have a legume to stand on.

 

[Binky The Doormat]

Anyone know what prison he is going to? Would be good to see him go in regular general population type arrangement.

 

[Parrothead]

He'll be out of jail in a jiffy.

but he'll be a shell of his former self

 

[Cjw_55106]

Some of you guys are a bit salty today.

 

[zamboni]

Anyone know what prison he is going to? Would be good to see him go in regular general population type arrangement.

If the inmate that makes him his ***** doesn't nickname him Skippy, the prison should be shut down.

 

[Charlie Steiner]

That is nuts.

Legumes, actually.

Oh, good grief

 

[PlasmaDogPlasma]

Those Dbags remind me of that compounding pharmacy that had tainted meds. Public safety is a myth.

I'd say sentencing execs to 20-28 years provides serious incentive for others to do things right.

 

[Cliff Clavin]

He'll be out of jail in a jiffy.

but he'll be a shell of his former self

That sure was acorny one.

 

[fantasycurse42]

Those Dbags remind me of that compounding pharmacy that had tainted meds. Public safety is a myth.

I'd say sentencing execs to 20-28 years provides serious incentive for others to do things right.

Yup, they made an example of this guy... Unfortunately, I still think a lot of executives are borderline untouchable.

 

[Parrothead]

Anyone know what prison he is going to? Would be good to see him go in regular general population type arrangement.

he'd crack if he did

 

[eoMMan]

Just Ship It....

What an #######.

I hope they....

Just Stick It

 

[Andy Dufresne]

That is nuts.

Legumes, actually.

Oh, good grief

Heh, heh...I see what you did there.

 

[bakes]

Anyone know what prison he is going to? Would be good to see him go in regular general population type arrangement.

If the inmate that makes him his ***** doesn't nickname him Skippy, the prison should be shut down.

Brings a whole new meaning to the term Nutter Butter...

 

[James Daulton]

I wonder if his wife will let him planter one last time before he's sent up the river?

 

[The Commish]

now if they could do the same to those who caused the 2008 financial crisis...

Banks "donate" WAAAAAAAAAY more than these lightweights.

 

[Parrothead]

I wonder if his wife will let him planter one last time before he's sent up the river?

:snicker:

 

[Parrothead]

now if they could do the same to those who caused the 2008 financial crisis...

Banks donate WAAAAAAAAAY more than these lightweights.

yeah, Big Peanut has no lobby

 

[grateful zed]

now if they could do the same to those who caused the 2008 financial crisis...

 

[Binky The Doormat]

now if they could do the same to those who caused the 2008 financial crisis...

x 1,000,000,000,000s - how we allowed Goldman Sachs and others to get away with that #### is still unbelievable.

 

[James Daulton]

now if they could do the same to those who caused the 2008 financial crisis...

x 1,000,000,000,000s - how we allowed Goldman Sachs and others to get away with that #### is still unbelievable.

Perhaps because they run the government?

 

[grateful zed]

how about the WMD guys?

 

[gianmarco]

I wonder if his wife will let him planter one last time before he's sent up the river?

:snicker:

Actually....:snickers: