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Bumble Bee Pleads Guilty To Price-Fixing, Will Pay $25 Million Fine
Tuesday, May 9, 2017 - 9:45am | 612That must really sting. Bumble Bee Foods, LLC agreed to plead guilty and pay a $25 million criminal fine for conspiring to “fix, raise and maintain prices of packaged seafood” from 2011 to 2013, the U.S. Justice Department said Monday. The feds say the fine will increase to $81.5...
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Bees: The Latest Casualty Of Western Economics?
Saturday, January 21, 2017 - 5:30pm | 1043There’s been a lot of recent buzz on the decline of bee species, and on Tuesday, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services extended protection to the rusty patch bumble bee. The government blamed species endangerment on habitat degradation, and fingers point to mankind. Over the last few decades...