Butterball Turkeys Funding Terror? The largest producer of Thanksgiving turkeys is being investigated by the Justice Department for possible ties to the Lebanese Hezbollah.

[TomSea]

Butterball Turkeys Funding Terror?
The largest producer of Thanksgiving turkeys is being investigated by the Justice Department for possible ties to the Lebanese Hezbollah.

Wed, November 23, 2016

Seaboard is an international company which is the largest producer of Butterball turkeys in the United States, according to Fortune magazine. It is now being investigated by the Justice Department after allegations that the company has business relationships with senior figures blacklisted by the US government for financing the Lebanese terror group Hezbollah.

Investigators a looking into a Seaboard milling subsidiary in Africa which is working with a businessman named Kassim Tajideen. Tajideen was blacklisted by the U.S. State Department in 2009 and 2010 for allegedly funneling tens of millions of dollars to Hezbollah.

A meeting allegedly took place in 2012 between a Hezbollah financier and Seaboard in which the two parties discussed how to use middlemen to conceal Seaboard’s ties to Tajideen. Federal investigators are trying to determine whether that meeting took place and what occurred there.

Continued: http://www.clarionproject.org/news/butterball-turkeys-funding-terror

Not much here but this story has been widely reported and is timely.

[geronl]

Seaboard is mainly in the PORK business among others

23,000 employees and is based in Kansas

owns a 50% non-controlling stake in Butterball

[geronl]

In 1998 TIME magazine had an "in-depth" article about Seaboard called "The Empire of the Pigs".