Johnston slaughterhouse fined $20K for fraud
Rhode Island Beef and Veal admitted to claiming its beef passed federal inspection, when it actually hadn't.
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Rhode Island Beef and Veal admitted to claiming its beef passed federal inspection, when it actually hadn't.
A Johnston slaughterhouse will pay a $20,000 fine and spend three years on federal probation for selling fraudulently labeled beef in 2019, U.S. Attorney Zachary A. Cunha announced Tuesday. U.S. District Court Judge Mary S. McElroy’s ruling had probation time twice as long as the 18 months that the Rhode Island Beef and Veal’s lawyers […] The post Johnston beef slaughterhouse fined $20K, given probation for violating Federal Meat Inspection Act appeared first on Rhode Island Current.
A beef slaughterhouse in Johnston has been fined $20,000 and received three years of federal probation for fraudulently claiming product sold to customers had been federally inspected and passed under the Federal Meat Inspection Act (FMIA).
Three years after the indictment of Rhode Island Beef and Veal, Michael A. Quattrucci will, in July, stand for sentencing after pleading guilty on two
A Johnston beef slaughterhouse and an owner of the company have admitted to a federal judge that they committed fraud when they claimed that product they processed and suppled to customers had been federally inspected and passed as required under the Fede