A Mississippi Gulf Coast restaurant and its co-owner have been sentenced on federal charges of mislabeling inexpensive imported seafood as local premium fish. Mary Mahoney’s Old French House was sentenced Monday to five years of probation and ordered to pay nearly $1.5 million.
Mary Mahoney’s Old French House, founded in Biloxi in 1962 in a building that dates to 1737, was sentenced to five years of probation and ordered to pay nearly $1.5 million. That included a $149,000 criminal fine and $1.35 million in forfeiture for some of the money it received from fraudulent sales of seafood, the Justice Department said.
“Misbranding foreign seafood as premium, locally caught fish hurts the Gulf Coast seafood industry and defrauds customers that paid to taste the real thing,” U.S. Attorney Todd Gee said in a news release Monday. The restaurant admitted that between December 2013 and November 2019, the company and its co-conspirators at a Biloxi seafood wholesaler fraudulently sold as local premium species about 58,750 pounds of seafood that was frozen and imported from Africa, India and South America.
Biloxi General News LA State Wire AL State Wire MS State Wire Business U.S. News Politics Indictments Fraud U.S. Department Of Justice Criminal Punishment U.S. News
United States Latest News, United States Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
Hard-luck Mississippi Gulf Coast will have its first oyster season since 2018The Mississippi Gulf Coast will have an oyster season for the first time since 2018. The state Department of Marine Resources announced in a statement Wednesday that the season will open at sunrise, Nov. 13, in eight harvesting areas. But the season will last only 10 days.
Read more »
Northside Methodist Academy's Dana Cool signs to play volleyball at Mississippi Gulf Coast CCNorthside Methodist Academy senior Dana Cool will play for a first-year college volleyball program after signing with Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College on Friday.
Read more »
Mississippi Today’s NewsMatch Campaign is Here: Support Journalism that Strengthens MississippiBy joining NewsMatch, donations made from November 1 through December 31 are doubled, fueling journalism that keeps Mississippi informed and engaged.
Read more »
Before and after photos show Hurricane Beryl's destruction on the Gulf Coast of TexasResearchers quantified the coastal erosion caused by the storm.
Read more »
New tropical system forms in Caribbean, could pose a threat to US Gulf Coast next weekendPotential Tropical Cyclone 18 could become a tropical storm or hurricane
Read more »
Tropical Depression 18 likely strengthening into Hurricane Rafael, on track to hit Gulf CoastMillions of people from the Caribbean to the U.S. Gulf Coast are keeping their eyes on Tropical Depression Eighteen as the system becomes better organized and is forecast to become Hurricane Rafael…
Read more »