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Last sentence handed out in Rancho Feeding Corp. saga

By Dan Flynn on March 18, 2016

Felix Cabrera, the one-time foreman of the Petaluma,CA slaughterhouse, was sentenced Friday in San Francisco to three months of federal custody to be followed by two years of supervised probation. He was also fined $1,000.
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Three month sentence imposed on Rancho’s other owner

By Dan Flynn on March 3, 2016

Ranchocow_406x250U.S. District Court Judge Charles R. Breyer has sentenced 79-year old Robert W. Singleton to a “custodial term” of three months to be followed by one year of supervised probation for his role in a…
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Sentencings for Selling Cows With ‘Cancer Eye’ Pushed Into 2016

By Dan Flynn on October 8, 2015

The sentencings of defendants in a scheme to fool the U.S. Department of Agriculture and sell cattle with diseased eyeballs has again been delayed, some into next year. After spending 14 minutes hearing a defense…
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Money Lost By Others Delays Sentencing in Rancho Beef Case

By Dan Flynn on July 15, 2015

Sentencing four defendants in a scheme to slaughter cattle with cancerous eyes and sell the meat for human consumption is going to take longer than expected.

The U.S. District Court for Northern California has rescheduled…
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DOJ Food-Safety Enforcement Role to Continue in 2015

By Dan Flynn on December 30, 2014

When producers of such staple foods as beef, eggs, and peanut butter found they were the targets of federal criminal prosecution, it became a top food-safety story of 2014. But is it likely that food-safety…
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Rancho Co-Owner Will Go To Trial Alone, Three Others Make Plea Deals

By Dan Flynn on December 19, 2014

Jury selection will begin July 16, 2015, in the federal criminal conspiracy case involving former Rancho Feeding Corp. co-owner Jesse J. Amaral Jr. The 76-year-old cattle company executive will be tried alone as three others,…
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Government Settles on Plea Deal With Rancho Yardman

By Dan Flynn on October 20, 2014

Eugene D. Corda, 65, the top yardman responsible for receiving cattle and moving them for inspection and slaughter at Rancho Feeding Corporation’s slaughterhouse in Petaluma, CA, has very likely become a government witness. Under terms…
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Former Rancho Employees Charged With 11 Felonies

By Dan Flynn on August 19, 2014

Straight-up fraud and conspiracy, mostly to get cows with “cancer eye” past USDA inspectors so they could be processed along with healthy animals, were allegedly behind the demise of the Petaluma, CA, slaughterhouse that closed…
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