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Menu Foods knew of sick pets SIX DAYS before CFO sold stock

Thu Apr 12, 2007 at 06:39:25 AM PDT

UPDATE:  There's a Senate hearing today on the pet food recall (see lulu57's comment below).  I'm seeing how many senators I can email before I need to leave for work.  Thanks to everyone for your support!

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Thanks to SusanHu's excellent diary from Tuesday, we know that Mark Weins, Menu Foods' Chief Financial Officer, sold half of his company stock on February 26 and 27, about three weeks before the pet food recall was announced.  Sure sounds suspicious, right?  

But both recent stories quote the company spokesman, Sam Bornstein, as saying it was all just "a horrible coincidence."   Let's see if we believe that....


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