Casey’s Seafood Owner Pleads Guilty to Falsely Labeling Crab Meat; Harris Teeter to Reimburse
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [SeafoodNews] - September 27, 2018
James R. Casey, the owner and president of Casey’s Seafood in Newport News, Virginia, has pleaded guilty on charges that he led a “lucrative conspiracy to falsely label millions of dollars’ worth of foreign crab meat.”
According to reports, Casey conspired to replace Atlantic blue crab with crab meat from Indonesia, China, Thailand, Vietnam, and Central and South America. The wholesale processor of crab meat and other seafood admitted as part of his guilty plea that he ...
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