Chapter 20 - The Indictments
State and federal authorities split cases.
Food safety.
Procurement fraud.
Wire fraud.
Falsified records.
Kickbacks.
Not every defendant faced every charge.
Owen Vale faced major fraud and food-distribution charges.
Denise Harper faced falsification and conspiracy charges and cooperated.
Thomas Morgan faced procurement-related fraud and corruption counts.
Kevin Doyle faced operational charges.
BlueLine supervisor faced separate violations.
Important:
No one was charged because one sandwich looked bad.
Charges followed documents, money and repeated acts.
Precision protected case.
Harvest Ridge lost district contract immediately through emergency termination provisions.
Temporary suppliers stepped in.
Meals continued.
No children starved because one vendor was removed.
That mattered.
Powerful vendors often claim institution cannot survive without them.
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