(Breaking news) Seafood seller pleads guilty in rockfish scheme

Friday, June 12, 2009

Tall Timbers seafood seller Robert Lumpkins pleaded guilty Thursday afternoon to participating in a scheme to help watermen falsify the amount and weight of striped bass that were checked in through his seafood company.

Lumpkins' company, Golden Eye Seafood, faces a maximum fine of $500,000 on three counts of falsification, and he faces a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine on each of the four counts to which he pleaded guilty.

Sentencing is scheduled for Sept. 22 and 23.

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