A Mississippi company is sentenced for mislabeling cheap seafood as premium local fish

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James W. Gunkel,Mary Mahoney,Todd A. Rosetti

The largest seafood distributor on the Mississippi Gulf Coast and two of its managers have been sentenced on federal charges of mislabeling inexpensive imported seafood as local premium fish. This comes weeks after Mary Mahoney's Old French House restaurant and its co-owner were sentenced in the same scheme.

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QPS and the two managers pleaded guilty Aug. 27 to conspiring to mislabel seafood and commit wire fraud. Rosetti received eight months in prison, followed by six months of home detention, one year of supervised release and 100 hours of community service. Gunkel received two years of probation, one year of home detention and 50 hours of community service.Judge declares mistrial after jury deadlocks over killing of gay University of Mississippi studentMary Mahoney’s Old French House and its co-owner/manager Anthony Charles Cvitanovich, pleaded guilty to similar charges May 30 and were sentenced Nov.

Mahoney’s admitted that between December 2013 and November 2019, the company and its co-conspirators at QPS fraudulently sold as local premium species about 58,750 pounds of frozen seafood imported from Africa, India and South America.

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