Another Tuna Exec, This Time from Starkist, Pleads Guilty to Price Fixing
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [REUTERS] by Eric Walsh - June 29, 2017
A former StarKist executive pleaded guilty on Wednesday to conspiring with officials from other tuna companies to fix the price of canned seafood in the United States from 2011 to 2013, the U.S. Justice Department said in a statement.
Stephen Hodge, a former senior vice president of sales at StarKist, pleaded guilty to a one-count criminal information that was filed on May 30 in federal court in San Francisco.
A criminal information is a type of charging document prosecutors tend to use in connection with people who are negotiating plea deals. Hodge, who agreed to pay a fine and cooperate with the investigation by the department's antitrust division, will be ....
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