This February is the 10th anniversary of the criminal indictment of Peanut Corporation of America’s executives. And the 2 offenders who stay in federal custody are still actively pursuing release, suggesting there have actually just been a couple of minutes in the previous years when these cases have actually not been active.
The prosecution of the PCA executives was a turning point in food security as it implied the food market was being delegated a break out that triggered numerous diseases and a number of deaths.
The legal action started in February 2013 when the federal indictments of Stewart Parnell, Michael Parnell, Samuel Lightsey, and Mary Wilkerson were unsealed in a federal court in Albany, GA. A different indictment for Daniel Kilgore was opened later on.
Throughout the 4 years after the multistate Salmonella break out that was connected to PCA peanut butter and paste made at its Georgia plant, little was exposed about the federal criminal examination that was understood to be underway. The unsealed indictments completed the information.
February 2013 was a hectic month. The offenders gotten lawyers, entered their pleas of innocent and gotten conditions for release. Stewart Parnell, who was president of the currently insolvent PCA, put down $100,000 as bail.
Stewart Parnell, his peanut broker sibling Michael, and Mary Wilkerson all went to a jury trial throughout the following summer season. Wilkerson was PCA’s quality assurance offic