Ex-Peanut Executive Sentenced to 28 Years in Prison for Salmonella Coverup
A former Georgia peanut executive was sentenced to 28 years in prison Monday for presiding over a coverup that led to a deadly salmonella outbreak, marking what legal experts believe to be the most severe punishment to date in a U.S. food-safety case. A U.S. district judge in Albany, Ga., sentenced Stewart Parnell, the former…