on July 12, 2013 in World News
Feds Shake Down Farmer for Free Raisins
A California raisin farmer is facing bankruptcy for defying a law requiring him to give the government a portion of his raisin crop without compensation. According to a Washington Post report, Marvin Horne, 68, stopped giving the government his raisins in 2002 and now “owes the U.S. government at least $650,000 in unpaid fines,” in addition to “1.2 million pounds of unpaid raisins, roughly equal to his entire harvest for four years.” Horne violated Marketing Order 989, passed during the Truman administration, “a federal regulation meant to solve a problem from the era after World War II, which created the… View Article
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