Source: COASTAL REVIEW, 9/21/20


Jeffrey Styron sold a lie. Hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of lies neatly packaged for buyers — primarily small seafood retailers and restaurants — who trusted they were buying crabmeat harvested in the United States. After all, that’s what the labels on crabmeat from Garland Fulcher Seafood Co. Inc. said. Earlier this month, Styron, treasurer of the corporate board of officers for Garland Fulcher in Oriental, pleaded guilty to falsely labeling crabmeat as “Product of USA.”

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