He Plead the Fifth

President of Peanut Corp. has plead the fifth! On Feb. 11, Stuart Parnell went in front of the court to be question about whether or not he told his crew to send out products that he and others knowingly knew were contaminated. At court, he plead the fifth and refused to answer any questions about the situation. There is one of two reasons Parnell did this. One, he in fact did knowingly send out contaminated products and now has the guilt of seven deaths and over 400 people sick on his mind or two he again is in fact guilty and when he sent the products he was willing to take a chance and that chance sunk. Either way...the man is guilty. In a recent MS NBC article is stated that in court on the Feb. 11 an e-mail was released from Parnell to his plant manager that said, "Turn them loose." He was referring to the products that may possibly have been contaminated. It is hard to understand what was going through Parnell's at the time of this e-mail. It also goes to show really how much manufacturers really care about their consumers. Yes, the products could have went out without no one falling ill and Parnell would have been cleared...but they did not. One has to wonder if this is how every manufacturer handles problems at plants...decide on a whim and hope that everything goes well? Interesting.
After causing seven deaths and almost 400 falling ill you would think that the last thing that Parnell could do is explain or try to explain himself in front of his consumers, but as of Feb. 11 he could not.