Dole alleges fraud by witnesses in Nicaragua pesticide suit
Wednesday, April 22, 2009 - 02:07
in Health & Medicine
A lawyer for Dole says men were recruited to pose as injured banana workers in a scheme to collect millions in damages. He says witnesses feared being killed if they testified about the fraud. A lawyer for Dole Fresh Fruit Co. outlined to a judge on Tuesday evidence of a scheme to collect millions of dollars in damages by recruiting men to pose as having been rendered sterile from exposure to a pesticide on Nicaraguan banana plantations.