District Court Sentencing for Mold and Rodent Infested Warehouse Affirmed by U.S. Court of Appeals

CHICAGO - The U.S. Court of Appeals found that the district court properly applied sentencing guidelines involving fraud offenses and properly calculated inventory value in its ruling against a warehouse owner whose facility was infested with rodents and with black mold growing inside a cooler and on meat and poultry products. United States of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Theodore Mantas and Helmos Food Product, Incorporated, Defendant-Appellants, No. 01-2213 (U.S. Ct. App., 7th Cir.).

According to the Dec. 11, 2001 decision, because the warehouse owner agreed to the use of the fraud guideline and exhibited a criminal intent to sell all of …