Man Charged for Corruption in the Tomato Industry

By Vanessa Richins

Apparently, Randall Lee Rahal couldn’t sell tomatoes without resorting to illegal methods.

Charges–including racketeering, price fixing, bid rigging and contract allocation, and with money laundering– were filed against him on December 10th, 2008 in the U.S. District Court in Sacramento, California.

Rahal, the president of a New Jersey wholesale company named Intramark, worked as the sales broker for SK Foods in California, which sold processed tomato products.

The charges filed state that Rahal had the consent of the company to offer bribes to the food buyers so they would choose SK foods over the competitors. These bribes allowed SK Foods to Read the rest of this entry »