The former manager of a Georgia peanut plant knowingly shipped out peanuts with false safety documents, causing nine deaths and making over 700 more sick, Guardianlv.com reports. Sammy Lightsey told jurors that he did not think that he was “intentionally hurting anyone” while testifying at the trial of his former boss, Stewart Parnell. Quality assurance manager, Mary Wilkerson, Parnell and his brother, food broker Michael Parnell, were all indicted for shipping peanuts tainted with salmonella and falsifying safety documents to cover up lab tests showing the nuts tested positive for the bacteria.
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Source: http://guardianlv.com
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