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Nov. 19, 2019

Lawyer suggests tuna pricing trial witness ‘just making stuff up’

An attorney representing Christopher Lischewski challenged Monday a former Bumble Bee Foods LLC marketing executive's characterization of his one-time boss' alleged role in directing a price-fixing conspiracy across three major packaged seafood companies.

Lawyer suggests tuna pricing trial witness ‘just making stuff up’
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SAN FRANCISCO -- An attorney representing Christopher Lischewski challenged Monday a former Bumble Bee Foods LLC marketing executive's characterization of his one-time boss' alleged role in directing a price-fixing conspiracy across three major packaged seafood companies.

Kenneth Worsham only offered secondhand and unsubstantiated accounts of Lischewski leading the scheme, argued Elliot Peters, who questioned whether the co-conspir...

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