Source: Matt Lakin, KNOX NEWS, 4/10/18


The Grainger County slaughterhouse raided last week by federal agents in the region's largest roundup of undocumented workers in a decade paid thousands in fines to the federal government for shorting farmers on meat prices years before, records show. Southeastern Provision LLC paid a $5,000 penalty in June 2012 for what U.S. Department of Agriculture inspectors called "willful" violations of federal weights and measures regulations at the plant on Helton Road in Bean Station, Tennessee.

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