Casey's Seafood VP of Marketing Pleads Guilty to Falsely Labeling Crab Meat
Michael P. Casey, the Vice President for Marketing and Operations of Casey's Seafood, pleaded guilty last week to selling foreign crab meat that was falsely labeled as blue crab from the United States.
As SeafoodNews previously reported, Casey's Seafood owner and president James R. Casey conspired to replace Atlantic blue crab with crab meat from Indonesia, China, Thailand, Vietnam, and Central and South America. Between 2010 and June 2015 the Newport News, Virginia-based wholesale seafood processing company allegedly falsely labeled nearly 400,000 pounds of crab meat...
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