February 11, 2009

Peanut CEO Ordered Shipping of Tainted Food!

The owner of a peanut company urged his workers to ship tainted products after receiving test results identifying salmonella, according to internal company e-mails disclosed Wednesday by a House committee.

The company e-mails obtained by the House panel showed that Peanut Corp. of America owner Stewart Parnell ordered the shipments tainted with the bacteria because he was worried about lost sales.

Now he should get to worry about Manslaughter and Depraved Indifference Murder charges over the 600 people who got sick, eight of whom died.

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