BUSINESS BRIEFING / FOOD
Times Wire Reports
Federal prosecutors said buyers for Kraft Foods Inc. and Frito-Lay, a division of PepsiCo Inc., were pleading guilty to taking bribes from a California tomato processor.
Robert Watson of White Plains, N.Y., a former Kraft senior purchasing manager, entered his plea in a Sacramento federal court to accepting $158,000 from a sales broker at SK Foods of Lemoore, Calif.
The U.S. attorney in the case said James Wahl Jr., a former Frito-Lay purchaser from Dallas, also had agreed to plead guilty to accepting about $160,000.
