Judge to finalize ConAgra plea in tainted peanut butter case
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This March 21, 2011, file photo shows a sign for ConAgra Foods’ world headquarters in Omaha, Neb. ConAgra is heading to court to finalize an $11.2 million plea deal in a federal criminal case stemming from a salmonella outbreak that sickened hundreds who ate tainted Peter Pan peanut butter. A federal judge in Albany, Georgia, is scheduled to decide Thursday, Dec. 15, 2016 whether to approve the settlement reached with Justice Department prosecutors in May 2015.
Albany, Ga. >> A federal judge is scheduled to consider an $11.2 million plea deal to settle a criminal case against ConAgra stemming from a salmonella outbreak linked to the company’s Peter Pan peanut butter that sickened hundreds a decade ago.
U.S. District Court Judge W. Louis Sands set a hearing Tuesday to finalize the agreement ConAgra reached last year after federal prosecutors charged one of its subsidiaries with one misdemeanor count of shipping adulterated food. The proposed settlement includes an $8 million fine, which prosecutors say would be the largest criminal fine ever in a U.S. food safety case.
In early 2007, salmonella blamed for sickening at least 625 people in 47 states was traced to a plant in rural Sylvester, Georgia, that produced Peter Pan peanut butter. A massive recall followed.
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Was the Feeral Government sicken? Then, why do they get all the money?