Salmonella hearing makes an example of Fifth-taking exec
(NEWSER) - Congress knew it wasn’t going to get any answers out of Stew Parnell, the man whose company's peanut butter is suspected of killing eight people. Parnell doggedly took the Fifth on even the simplest questions, but it didn’t matter. Parnell was summoned only so he could be chastised, “put through the walk of shame,” writes Dana Milbank of the Washington Post. Think of it as the modern equivalent of putting him in the stocks. More»
