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"Ohio man who raised $55K is throwing potato salad party | Associated Press September 26, 2014
COLUMBUS, Ohio — A man who jokingly sought $10 from a crowdfunding website to pay for his first attempt at making potato salad and ended up raising $55,000 is making good on his promise to throw a huge party.
Zack Brown is planning PotatoStock 2014, an all-ages, charity-minded party Saturday in downtown Columbus featuring bands, food trucks, beer vendors, potato-sack races, and definitely potato salad.
His effort on Kickstarter in early July to buy potato salad ingredients took on a life of its own and attracted worldwide attention as the amount grew.
The 31-year-old eventually raised $55,492.
The Idaho Potato Commission and corporate sponsors have donated supplies for Brown and volunteers to whip up 300 pounds of potato salad for the event.
I'm so sick of this corporate paper full of $upremaci$m in one form or another.
The Columbus Dispatch reported that Brown partnered with the Columbus Foundation to start an endowment to aid area charities that fight hunger and homelessness.
The account, started with $20,000 in postcampaign corporate donations, will grow after proceeds from PotatoStock are added. Brown has been wooed by chefs, a literary agent, and admirers seeking selfies and hugs.
‘‘You never know what’s going to take off,’’ said Justin Kazmark, a Kickstarter spokesman.
Brown said the effort was never really about potato salad. ‘‘I think it says something about how you can spread an idea now,’’ Brown said.
Like 9/11 truth and all the other countermeasures that must be taken against a ma$$ media that spews nothing but sh**.
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"Jury won’t consider deaths in Ga. salmonella trial" Associated Press September 19, 2014
ALBANY, Ga. — Shirley Mae Almer died a few days before Christmas in 2008 at a Minnesota hospital where the 72-year-old woman was already weak with illness when she was fed peanut butter contaminated with salmonella.
Nearly six years later, a federal jury is weighing criminal charges against the man who owned the peanut plant blamed for producing tainted food that sickened hundreds across the United States. But after six weeks of trial testimony that included nearly 50 witnesses and an estimated 1,000 documents, jurors never heard that Almer or anybody else died after eating the company’s peanut butter.
The jury ended its first full day of deliberations Thursday without a verdict in the trial of former Peanut Corporation of America owner Stewart Parnell and two others. Jurors were scheduled to continue Friday morning.
Prosecutors say they made a calculated legal decision in keeping evidence of deaths off the table.
Jeff Almer, whose mother was among nine people whose deaths were linked to the outbreak in 2008 and 2009, said he understands that. But he still worries jurors who sat through the long trial still don’t grasp its full impact.
‘‘The details and the technicalities get to be a bit much,’’ Almer said. ‘‘I thought the deaths were a shock to the system and justified and validated everything.’’
Parnell and his brother, food broker Michael Parnell, are charged with knowingly shipping contaminated peanut butter to customers and faking lab tests intended to screen for salmonella.
Tainted peanut butter from the company’s plant in rural Blakely, Ga., ended up in jars, packaged crackers, and other snacks.
The outbreak led to one of the largest food recalls in US history.
The peanut plant’s quality control manager, Mary Wilkerson, is charged along with Stewart Parnell with obstructing justice.
Specialists say it is the first time food processors have been tried in a federal food poisoning case.
There was testimony at the trial that people got sick. But attorneys and witnesses never mentioned that some died because the Parnell brothers aren’t charged with killing or sickening anybody.
Instead, prosecutors decided they could build a stronger case charging them with defrauding their customers — food producers including Kellogg’s — and selling them tainted goods, said US Attorney Michael Moore of Georgia’s Middle District, whose office tried the case.
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"3 guilty in salmonella-tainted peanut trial" Associated Press September 20, 2014
ALBANY, Ga. — A federal jury convicted the owner of a peanut plant and two others Friday in a salmonella outbreak that prompted one of the largest US food recalls ever, sickened hundreds across the country, and was linked to several deaths.
Specialists say the seven-week trial in Albany, Ga., marked the first time corporate executives and plant workers were tried in a food poisoning case.
Former Peanut Corporation of America owner Stewart Parnell was convicted on numerous counts including conspiracy, wire fraud, and obstruction of justice related to shipping tainted peanut butter to customers and faking results of lab tests intended to screen for salmonella. His brother, Michael Parnell, was also found guilty on multiple charges related to the false lab results.
The jury also found Mary Wilkerson, the plant’s quality assurance manager, guilty of obstruction of justice for hiding information about the plant’s salmonella problems from investigator. But Wilkerson was acquitted on one of two obstruction counts she faced.
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