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Ill-fated quality control officer for Peanut Corp of America freed from federal custody

By Dan Flynn on February 9, 2020

Mary Wilkerson, quality control officer for the defunct Peanut Corporation of America, is free after serving a 5-year federal prison sentence for obstruction of justice.

Wilkerson, 46 of Edison, GA., was released from a re-entry…
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Former PCA quality control officer Wilkerson moves into half-way house

By Dan Flynn on September 25, 2019

Mary Wilkerson, quality control officer for the now-defunct Peanut Corporation of America, has been released from a federal prison in Tallahassee, FL, to a half-way house in Atlanta.

Wilkerson, 46, has also had her full…
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Publisher’s Platform: If I was part of Caito Foods, I’d be nervous

By Bill Marler on April 29, 2019
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Criminal prosecutions in food cases have been quiet for the last few years.

Outbreak 2: The recent multistate investigation began on April 2, 2019, when CDC’s PulseNet identified the Salmonella Carrau outbreak. As of…
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PCA’s victims learn the next stop for Mary Wilkerson is a Macon, GA half-way house

By Dan Flynn on January 31, 2019

Mary Wilkerson, the unlucky 45-year old former Peanut Corporation of America quality manager for control is getting out of the federal prison in Tallahassee, FL.

Wilkerson is serving five years for a jury conviction of…
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PCA peanut broker may still get Supreme Court review; no options left for manager

By Dan Flynn on October 17, 2018

Oddsmakers say it is easier to get into Harvard Unversity than to get the U.S. Supreme Court to grant a petition for Writ of Certiorari.

For Mary Wilkerson, who once held the title of quality…
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Former food safety manager for PCA wants Supreme Court to review her case

By Dan Flynn on September 26, 2018

Mary Wilkerson, who says she was given the title of quality assurance manager for the now-defunct Peanut Corporation of American (PCA), but “apparently not the authority,” wants the U.S. Supreme Court to review her conviction…
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Attorney seeks to preserve appeal option in PCA case

By Dan Flynn on July 26, 2018

Any day you can get out of jail early is a good day.  But it remains very doubtful that Mary Wilkerson will get out even a day early.  She has one year, seven months, and…
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Appellate mandate ends biggest food safety criminal case in history

By Dan Flynn on June 21, 2018

It’s over.

After 1,952 days in federal trial and appellate courts, the case of the United States versus Stewart and Michael Parnell et al is no longer active.

It became history Wednesday when David J.
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11th Circuit won’t hear or rehear anymore Parnell appeals

By Dan Flynn on June 13, 2018

Petitions from the Parnell brothers for an appellate rehearing of their criminal convictions and sentences were denied by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit in Atlanta on June 11. Further, their petitions…
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Peanut butter defendants get more time to file for rehearing

By Dan Flynn on February 16, 2018

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit has approved a motion giving more time for the Peanut Corporation of America criminal defendants to file petitions for rehearing and rehearing en banc.

The new…
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