BULLETIN — The United States v. Paul Kruse trial in Austin, Texas ended Monday in a mistrial.
The jury apparently split 10-to-2 with the majority wanting to acquit the 67-year-old retired president of Blue Bell Creameries, based in Brenham, Texas. He was tried on federal felony counts of conspiracy and
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At Broken Arrow, OK, Blue Bell Creamery made unlimited ice cream available for the 20th Annual Taste of Summer Festival. And a 13-year-old North Texas girl gave Blue Bell the inspiration for one of its new summer flavors.
Blue Bell has been making news all summer, but hardly any is
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Pau Kruse, the retired 67-year-old former president of Blue Bell Creameries in Brenham, TX, is ordered to appear in federal court in Austin on July 22.
Federal Judge Robert Pitman has set the Final Docket Call and Hearing date for all pending motions before the Aug. 1 jury trial.
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Continue Reading Final docket hearing called for July 22, just ahead of jury trial of former Blue Bell president
Jury selection in Austin, TX, for the criminal trial of the former chief executive of Blue Bell Creameries, is not likely to begin until 2022.
The government does not oppose a pending defense motion to delay the trial of sixty-six-year-old Paul Kruse until March 21, 2022. The new start date
Continue Reading Blue Bell criminal trial not likely to begin until March 21, 2022
Victims of foodborne illness are often so numerous that the government wants to cast the wide internet in contacting them about felony prosecutions that often occur years later.
Federal prosecutors who plan to take former Blue Bell Creameries president Paul Kruse to a jury trial in July are telling the
Continue Reading Victims of 2015 Listeria outbreak involving Blue Bell invited to follow Kruse case
Federal Judge Robert Pitman backed up his chief judge in the U.S. District Court for the Western Texas District on Dec. 21 by ruling that the COVID-19 crisis was sufficient enough reason to shrink a defendant’s statute of limitations rights. The issue could next be ripe for the appellate court.
Continue Reading Motion to dismiss charges against former Blue Bell chief denied by Austin judge
A federal court in Texas sentenced ice cream manufacturer Blue Bell Creameries L.P. to pay $17.25 million in criminal penalties for shipments of contaminated products linked to a 2015 listeriosis outbreak.
The Brenham, Texas-based Blue Bell is an iconic 113-year old ice cream maker whose product was once only available
Continue Reading Austin federal court makes it official: Blue Bell owes record $17.25 million in criminal penalties
A federal district court judge in Texas has set the starting trial date for the United States v. Paul Kruse, the felony criminal case against the former CEO of Blue Bell Creameries. And U.S District Judge Robert Pitman, who will preside at the trial, has set a deadline for government
Continue Reading Paul Kruse trial to begin with jury selection set for August
Five years after the fatal Blue Bell listeria outbreak, the criminal case against the Texas ice cream company’s former chief executive has put it all back in the news. Three people from Kansas died in the outbreak.
The normal two-day story that ordinarily might follow from such a criminal
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The former chief executive of Blue Bell Creameries, Paul Kruse, may plead not guilty in an arraignment by video Tuesday, June 9, before U.S. Magistrate Judge Andrew W. Austin, according to documents filed June 2 with the U.S. District Court in Austin, TX.
The federal criminal case against Kruse was
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