The Nation - News from Aug. 8, 1988
Two government employees were charged in San Juan, Puerto Rico, with embezzling thousands of dollars from school lunch programs by allegedly reporting food had spoiled and then selling it to private firms. Justice Department officials said the charges, filed after a two-year investigation, involve hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of food that was marked as rotten and then sold to wholesalers and stores instead of destroying it, the San Juan Star reported. It said most of the food was surplus produce donated by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
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