Chris Lischewski, president and CEO of Bumble Bee, faces some potentially stiff penalties if he is convicted in connection with a one-count felony indictment filed Wednesday alleging he carried out a conspiracy by agreeing to fix canned tuna prices.
The maximum penalties for the crime include 10 years in prison, a $1 million fine and a period of supervised release of up to three years.
Lischewski is the fourth person to be charged in the federal price-fixing probe.
The indictment, filed in the US District Court for the Northern District of California in San Francisco, charges Lischewski with participating in a conspiracy to fix prices of packaged seafood beginning in or about November 2010 until December 2013.
