The former head of food services for New York City public schools was sentenced to two years in prison on Monday for a bribery scandal that resulted in children being served chicken tenders contaminated with metal and bone.
Eric Goldstein, the former school food chief, was sentenced in Brooklyn federal court along with three men who ran a vendor that had contracted with the city to provide school food — Blaine Iler, Michael Turley and Brian Twomey. Iler was sentenced to one year and a $10,000 fine, Turley to 15 months and Twomey to 15 months and a $10,000 fine.
All four men were found guilty of bribery, conspiracy and other charges after a monthlong trial in 2023.
what the fuck is going on in NY
What made you think NY is any better than the rest of the country? Just cause we have AOC? Lotta people=lot of fuckers.
i know every place has its scumbags, i’ve just noticed a lot of these articles about NY in the last couple weeks
Yeah, cause New York actually puts a lot of these people on trial rather than letting them get away with it
Fuhgeddabodit
I was curious to see how large the bribe is, but I didn’t see it in the article. Does anyone know?
There’s a lot …
The owners promised tens of thousands of dollars to the official, Eric Goldstein, along with control of a second food provider called Range Meats Supply Company, prosecutors said.
(Goldstein’s) 20 percent share in Range Meats was kept hidden, prosecutors said.
In the fall of 2015, for instance, prosecutors said, the Somma owners were frustrated that their yogurt parfait and drumsticks were not scheduled to be served until the spring of 2016. Mr. Iler arranged to send $20,000 from a Somma bank account to a Range Meats account, then directed that $7,000 be transferred from the Range Meats account to a lawyer who had handled a divorce for Mr. Goldstein, prosecutors said. Soon after, prosecutors said, the Somma yogurt parfait was “fast-tracked.” Students started consuming it in December 2015.
Somma’s chicken tenders were also fast-tracked, prosecutors said, after Mr. Iler sent $3,000 from Range Meats to a bank account belonging to Mr. Goldstein’s father.
Later, after the reports of foreign objects and choking, Somma asked to substitute drumsticks while SchoolFood weighed the fate of its chicken tenders. Investigators said that Mr. Goldstein used his influence to delay SchoolFood’s response while he negotiated with the company’s owners over Range Meats. After weeks of back and forth, Mr. Iler, Mr. Turley and Mr. Twomey agreed to transfer Somma’s 60 percent interest in Range Meats to Mr. Goldstein and wire nearly $67,000 to a bank account he controlled.
