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Maine’s most infamous businessman, Austin “Jack” DeCoster, and his son were sentenced Monday to three months in jail for their role in a 2010 salmonella outbreak that sickened thousands of people nationwide.
DeCoster, 81, of Turner and his son Peter DeCoster, 51, of Clarion, Iowa, pleaded guilty last year to selling contaminated eggs from their Iowa egg farms. Under the sentence handed down Monday in federal court in Sioux City, the DeCosters were also fined $100,000 each.
Their company, Quality Egg, had pleaded guilty to bribing a federal inspector and other charges, and was fined $6.79 million.
The DeCosters previously owned egg farms in the Maine towns of Turner, Leeds and Winthrop, but sold them in late 2011. They now lease their Iowa facilities to another company.
Notorious egg seller Jack DeCoster gets jail time for salmonella outbreak - The Portland Press Herald Maine Sunday Telegram
I don't think that 3 months is long enough for bribery.
DeCoster, 81, of Turner and his son Peter DeCoster, 51, of Clarion, Iowa, pleaded guilty last year to selling contaminated eggs from their Iowa egg farms. Under the sentence handed down Monday in federal court in Sioux City, the DeCosters were also fined $100,000 each.
Their company, Quality Egg, had pleaded guilty to bribing a federal inspector and other charges, and was fined $6.79 million.
The DeCosters previously owned egg farms in the Maine towns of Turner, Leeds and Winthrop, but sold them in late 2011. They now lease their Iowa facilities to another company.
Notorious egg seller Jack DeCoster gets jail time for salmonella outbreak - The Portland Press Herald Maine Sunday Telegram
I don't think that 3 months is long enough for bribery.