NY cheese maker pleads guilty for adulterated raw cheese connected to lethal Listeria break out
Pursuit to a 16-page plea arrangement that leaves little to the creativity, a previous raw milk cheese producer and the business he owned and handled pleaded guilty today to charges connected to cheese that was connected to a fatal break out of listeriosis.
Johannes Vulto and his business, Vulto Creamery LLC, are set up for sentencing on July 9 at the U.S. Courthouse in Syracuse, NY. The optimal sentence for the single misdemeanor count is one year jail time, a fine of $250,000, and one year of monitored release plus a 5-year regard to court guidance.
The plea contract needs a payment of $100,000 from Vulto and a 1 year monitored release to start after any jail time.
Following an examination by the FDA's Office of Criminal Investigations, the misdemeanor charge of Introducing Adulterated F...