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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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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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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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Wilkerson seeks release on bail as Lightsey gains his freedom

By Dan Flynn on May 15, 2017

Samuel Lightsey, the one-time operations manager for the Peanut Corporation of America’s processing plant in Blakely, GA, is out of prison with a new job at a company equipping the peanut industry.

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First of PCA convicted executives begins prison release process

By Dan Flynn on May 2, 2017

Samuel Lightsey, 52, the former manager of the now defunct Peanut Corporation of America processing plant in Blakely, GA, has moved into a Residential Re-entry Management facility in Atlanta a step toward his release from…
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Appellants in PCA criminal case given more time to file briefs

By Dan Flynn on June 9, 2016

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit has set Oct. 5, 2016, as the deadline for appellants Stewart Parnell, Michael Parnell and Mary Wilkerson, to file briefs. Originally they were due on June…
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Parnell brothers finally in prison for deadly peanut butter outbreak

By Dan Flynn on February 17, 2016

For the first time since they were sentenced last September, brothers Stewart and Michael Parnell are in federal prisons. The elder brother, Stewart Parnell, 61, is the former owner and chief executive officer of Peanut…
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Restitution Hearing Today for PCA’s Mostly Absent Criminal Defendants

By Dan Flynn on January 26, 2016

The federal judge who has presided over the Peanut Corporation of America (PCA) criminal case will conduct his likely last hearing in the case today, and the victims of the 2008-09 Salmonella Typhimurium outbreak are…
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Release Pending Appeal is Denied for Parnell Brothers

By Dan Flynn on January 12, 2016

Brothers Stewart and Michael Parnell will not be released on bond pending the outcome of their appeals, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit in Atlanta ruled. Judges for the Circuit, however, did…
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Sands Offers PCA Defendants Hearings Before Imposing Restitution

By Dan Flynn on December 2, 2015

The trial court judge who only recently sent four defendants to federal prison for a total of 57 years is not quite through with them. U.S. District Court Judge W. Louis Sands this week let…
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