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US: Six-year sentence for tomato empire price-fixer

By  |  February 13, 2013

A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the owner of a farming empire to spend six years in prison for his price-fixing scheme concerning processed tomatoes. Scott Salyer, the owner of SK Foods, was sentenced after pleading guilty last March to the charges, brought upon him after a five-year investigation. Other accusations include bribery and falsifying tomato paste quantities to buyers, according to reports, and they have landed on other executives of the company as well. During sentencing, US District Court Judge Lawrence K. Karlton said that Salyer was “a millionaire who risked everything for nothing.”

 

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