Packaged seafood company exec charged in price-fixing probe
WASHINGTON — A senior executive with Bumble Bee Foods, LLC, has agreed to plead guilty in a price-fixing scheme, federal prosecutors said Wednesday in announcing a continuing investigation into the packaged seafood industry.
The criminal charge against Walter Scott Cameron is the first in what the Justice Department says is a wider probe of anticompetitive practices among companies that sell canned tuna and other packaged seafood products.
Prosecutors accuse Cameron, a senior vice president of sales at Bumble Bee, of agreeing with co-conspirators at other companies to fix, raise and maintain the prices of their products.