According to the Sacramento Bee, prosecutors obtained another guilty plea on Tuesday in the Big Tomato Food Scandal:
Robert C. Turner Jr., who was purchasing director for Nabisco Inc., and later for B&G Foods Inc., admitted accepting $65,000 in bribe payments from Randall Lee Rahal, a former sales broker and director of SK Foods LP. . . . .
Turner, 59, of Randolph, N.J., admitted depriving B&G of its right to his honest services by steering contracts for tomato and other food products to SK Foods in return for the payoffs, and by securing contracts between B&G and SK Foods for the sale of certain products at inflated prices.
His guilty plea grows out of an ongoing nationwide investigation by the criminal and antitrust divisions of the U.S. Department of Justice. The probe is spearheaded in California by Benjamin Wagner and Sean Flynn, assistant U.S. attorneys in Sacramento, and Barbara Nelson, Richard Cohen and Lara Kroop of the antitrust division's San Francisco field office.