Good to see the feds cracking down on this type of activity. Frankly, it’s appalling that people would pass on inferior products and mislabel them.
Bob Egelko
San Francisco Chronicle
SACRAMENTO — A former official of a major California tomato processor has agreed to plead guilty to conspiracy charges involving bribes paid to food companies, the first charges against a senior executive of the firm at the center of a federal corruption investigation, prosecutors said Wednesday.
Jeffrey Beasley, former vice president for industrial sales at SK Foods in Monterey, will admit that he took part in plans to pay the bribes and ship tomato products with misleading content labels, inferior quality and inflated prices, the U.S. attorney’s office in Sacramento said.
