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Antitrust & Trade Reg.
Nov. 26, 2019
Prosecutors, defense attorneys spar over letter in tuna CEO criminal trial
Defense attorney Elliot Peters accused Department of Justice attorneys of knowingly ignoring rulings barring examination over the letter from a member of the board of directors.
SAN FRANCISCO -- Christopher Lischewski, the former Bumble Bee Foods CEO accused of directing a scheme to fix canned tuna prices, mentioned Monday an anonymous email from an unidentified whistleblower detailing the conspiracy that prosecutors argued he purposefully ignored.
After the federal judge overseeing the trial overruled objections from his counsel to stop further questioning, Lischewski said the note passed onto him from th...
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