Peanut CEO Takes The Fifth

The above is the title of a breaking cbsnews.com article about the President of The Peanut Corporation of America who is under subpoena to testify before a Congressional Committee today and who is refusing to testify, citing his Fifth Amendment rights.

I can only conclude that CBS is referring in its headline not only to the company in question, but to the qualities of a man who may have knowingly ordered the company to ship product tainted with salmonella.

Greed is not a wonderful thing, as the gurus of big business, to their lasting shame, continue to prove with each passing day.

About Gavin Stevens

Humptulips County is the wholly fictional on-line residence of Stephen Ellis, a would-be writer, an avid fan of William Faulkner and his Yoknapatawpha County, and a retired lawyer.
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