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Judge Tells Former Rancho Owner to be ‘Prepared to Surrender’ in February

By Dan Flynn on December 1, 2015

The U.S. Attorney’s Office in San Francisco does not like it, but Jesse J. Amaral Jr. is getting two additional months of freedom before he needs to report for sentencing, now rescheduled for 2 p.m.
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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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Attorney for Former Rancho Owner Wins Hearing on Protective Order

By Dan Flynn on August 20, 2015

The Valentine’s Day recall last year of 8,742,700 pounds of beef — all production of the Rancho Feeding Corporation from Jan. 1, 2013 through Jan. 7, 2014 — immediately sparked protests from customers who used…
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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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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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