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DeCosters Cite 2010 Performance to Help Keep Them Out of Jail

By Dan Flynn on July 22, 2015

As part of a campaign to keep their clients from serving any prison time, appellate attorneys for Austin (“Jack”) and Peter DeCoster are depicting the roles the former egg producers played in the 2010 Salmonella…
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DeCosters Will Face Victims and Possible Jail Time at Sentencing

By Dan Flynn on March 30, 2015

His sentencing in two weeks in a federal courtroom in Sioux City, IA, won’t be the first time that Austin “Jack” DeCoster has had to pay up for his legal misdeeds. DeCoster has paid millions…
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DeCoster Defense Team Says Jail for Their Clients Is Not an Option

By Dan Flynn on November 7, 2014

In his many high-profile run-ins with government officials over labor and environmental controversies, the now-71-year-old Austin “Jack” DeCoster got used to people wanting to see him jail. But it never happened, and his lawyers now…
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Government Says Salmonella Controls DeCoster Practiced in Maine Were Not Followed in Iowa

By Dan Flynn on October 29, 2014

When 550 million shell eggs were recalled from two Iowa farms in 2010 as the nation experienced an outbreak of Salmonella Enteritidis (SE), Austin “Jack” DeCoster owned or controlled the largest egg production conglomerate in…
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FDA’s Power to Prosecute

By Andy Frame on October 17, 2012

More than a year after the deadly Listeria outbreak that stemmed from Jensen Farms’ cantaloupes was first detected, criminal charges have yet to be filed against the company, but the Food and Drug Administration’s website…
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Employee of Egg Farm Linked to 2010 Salmonella Outbreak Tried to Bribe USDA Inspector

By Gretchen Goetz on September 12, 2012

A former manager at the Iowa farm responsible for the largest egg recall in history and the 2010 Salmonella outbreak that sickened nearly 2,000 people will plead guilty to conspiring to bribe a federal inspector…
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DeCoster Knew About Contamination for Months Before Recall

By Dan Flynn on June 4, 2012

Iowa State University’s government-funded Veterinary Diagnostics Laboratory knew that laying eggs produced by DeCoster Farms were likely contaminated with Salmonella months before more than half a billion eggs from its facility were recalled two years…
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Settlements for Children Injured in Egg Outbreak

By Dan Flynn on November 17, 2011

The requirement that lawsuit settlements reached on behalf of children go back to federal court for approval is giving the public an early look at what last year’s nationwide Salmonella Enteritidis outbreak may eventually cost…

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‘Jack’ is Back Selling Eggs in Iowa

By Dan Flynn on December 1, 2010

Since last August when his egg production was found to be the likely source of a multistate outbreak of Salmonella Enteritidis (SE),  “Jack” DeCoster has not been allowed to sell so much as a single…

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Fifth Lawsuit Filed in Salmonella Egg Outbreak

By Mary Rothschild on October 27, 2010

One of the egg companies linked to a Salmonella outbreak and massive egg recall faces a fifth lawsuit brought on behalf of a salmonellosis victim by the Seattle law firm Marler Clark.

The lawsuit against…

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