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| | #019: 01-15-97 - Former ADM Official Mark E. Whitacre Indicted on Criminal Charges (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26) |
 | | Whitacre, a former vice president of Archer Daniels Midland Company, on charges of wire fraud, interstate transportation of stolen property, money laundering, forfeiture, conspiracy, obstruction of justice, and filing false income tax returns, The 45-count indictment was returned in U.S. District Court in Springfield, Illinois. |
 | | The indictment charges Whitacre with conducting a scheme to defraud and obtain more than $9 million from his former employer where he served as president of its Bioproducts division and as a vice president of the parent company until the summer of 1995. |
 | | Whitacre is awaiting a trial date in that antitrust case. |
| www.usdoj.gov /opa/pr/1997/January97/019crm.htm (332 words) |
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