Antitrust Investigation Against SK Tomato
Randall Rahal, 59, of Ramsey, N.J., has pleaded guilty to participating in conspiracies involving racketeering, price fixing, bid rigging and contract allocation, and money laundering in the processed tomato industry.
Mr. Rahal was the owner and president of Intramark USA Inc., a New Jersey-based wholesaler of food ingredients, including processed tomato products. Through Intramark, Mr. Rahal served as a sales broker for SK Foods L.P., a Central Valley grower and processor of tomato products and other food products for sale to various food product manufacturers, food service distributors and marketers and retail outlets nationwide.
In that capacity, Mr. Rahal oversaw the negotiation and execution of contracts between SK Foods and many of its customer companies, and served as an advisor and director for SK Foods.
Specifically, in recent court documents, Mr. Rahal admitted that SK Foods and its related corporate entities constituted a racketeering enterprise, an organization that Mr. Rahal and other SK Foods leaders and employees helped to further through a variety of illicit activities, according to Assistant U.S. Attorneys Benjamin Wagner, Sean Flynn and Anne Pings, who are prosecuting the case together with Richard Cohen and Barbara Nelson of the San Francisco Field Office of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division.
(Developing story. From press reports.)
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