Texas meatpacking executives guilty of selling $1 million in altered beef to prisons

[TexasTowelie]

FORT WORTH -- Two Texas meatpacking executives pleaded guilty Tuesday to selling $1 million in altered ground beef to federal prisons.

The officials of West Texas Provisions Inc. in Amarillo tampered with the beef by including cow hearts and labeling it “ground beef,” according to federal officials.

West Texas Provisions President Jeffrey Neal Smith, 49, and operations manager Derrick Martinez, 43, pleaded guilty Tuesday afternoon to conspiracy to defraud the United States.

Martinez and Smith entered their plea in an Amarillo federal courtroom.

Read more: https://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/crime/article235466502.html

[keithbvadu2]

1. Not new in gov't purchasing.

Not new in gov't purchasing.

The British Navy was well known for discovering out to sea that the rations were poor ingredients and short counted.

Way too late to do anything about it.