Cedar Rapids, Iowa – Prosecutors say thousands of individuals and businesses were victims of a large-scale scheme in which ordinary corn and soybeans were fraudulently marketed nationwide as “certified organic.”
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The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, said in a filing Wednesday that potentially “tens of thousands” were defrauded by Randy Constant and his associates into paying a premium for products that they didn’t want.
Constant, of Chillicothe, Missouri, and three others have pleaded guilty and are awaiting sentencing. Constant, who owned an Iowa grain brokerage, acknowledged that he sold $142 million worth of corn, soybeans and wheat over a 7 ½ year period that wasn’t organic despite his representations.
Constant was aware that most of his product was grown using non-organic methods. The buyers included companies who processed the grain into other products that were marketed as organic.
I just hope those guys get Judge Reade on their case. She will lock them up as she did with Rubashkin
Do not assume all are treated equally. I am not aware of Constand being a Jewish sounding name.
Well, at least their Vaad hechsher is still safe (assuming Constant isn’t LGBTQ).
sure, and no one knew otherwise, since the whole message of ‘organic’ as being healthier is mostly a fraudulent message anyway, there is no healthy benefit from eating ‘organic’ over non organic.
But be like the Rambam writes “it is better to eat less of unhealthy foods than to eat much of healthy foods.”
Thanks to herr trumpf and his incessant ‘fake news’ campaign we now have kids eating fake grains. What a rasha is trumpf! Feh