Monsanto pleads guilty to pesticide-related crimes in Hawaii

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Source: Associated Press

Monsanto pleads guilty to pesticide-related crimes in Hawaii

By CALEB JONES
January 6, 2022

HONOLULU (AP) — The Monsanto Company pleaded guilty Thursday to illegally using and storing agricultural chemicals in Hawaii, and will pay $12 million in fines.

Monsanto, now owned by German pharmaceutical company Bayer, agreed to plead guilty to the charges in December. U.S. District Court judge Michael Seabright in Hawaii accepted the terms Thursday.

Monsanto was charged with 30 environmental crimes after allowing workers to go into corn fields on Oahu in 2020 after a product named Forfeit 280 was sprayed. Federal law prohibits people from entering areas where the chemical is sprayed within six days of application.

Monsanto was sentenced to three years of probation in addition to the fines and will continue an “environmental compliance program” overseen by a third-party auditor.

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1. MonSatan...

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2. Yes they did.

F’ers. They really figured out how to buy off our electeds in a big way. I wish I could forget the day publicly financed campaign group met right across the street from the State gallery building. Sem gov at the time was invited, was thought of as progressive and cultivated that, but he choose to go to the swanky fundraiser under the fancy tents put on by the Orwellian -named GMO seed companies instead.

Right across the street.

We waited for him for a long time.

That was just the beginning, then he got bought off by public swanky fundraiser with The Howard Hughes group that ruined Kakaako.

Ugh.

I guess represent.us has the only path forward for campaign finance reform.