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70. The Outbreak (Peanut Corporation of America)

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The Parnell Brothers and Mary Wilkerson Case - The Indictment

The parnell brothers and mary wilkerson were tried together on july 30 first two thousand 14. The prosecution featured forty five witnesses and thousands of pages of emales, lab results and financial records to prove that peanut corps executives intentionally misled inspectors and customers by knowingly intro sing contaminated product into the food chain. After seven weeks trial, september, two thousand 14, stuart parnell and his brother were convicted of 71 criminal counts, cluding conspiracy and fraud. It is important to note that the pc a executives were not charged with killing anybody. In fact, the death told from the salmanella outbreak was not even mentioned in court. Unless he wins an appeal

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