Peanut exec gets 28 years in salmonella outbreak

[WanderingWinoZ]

well, here's some criminal charges for a corporate exect


www.cnn.com/2015/09/21/us/salmonella-peanut-exec-sentenced/index.html


(CNN)A former peanut company owner was sentenced Monday to 28 years in jail for knowingly shipping out salmonella-tainted products in a 2008 outbreak that killed nine people and sickened hundreds of others.



Stewart Parnell, 61, was convicted last year on 72 counts of federal fraud and conspiracy charges in what food safety advocates are calling a precedent-setting case.

[ttt]

May I just say how f'ed up it is that his sentence is for causing millions of dollars in losses to Kelloggs and Con-Agra rather than for actually causing people to die?

www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/a-life-sentence-for-salmonella