Lawyers representing the government and former Bumble Bee Seafoods CEO Chris Lischewski are back in court today to discuss upcoming actions in the criminal price-fixing trial against Lischewski.

The government is proposing a trial starting no later than the fall of 2019.

Lischewski's attorneys at today's hearing will be looking for the court to grant them more time to go through a mountain of evidence the government says it has against the former tuna exec.

"In total, the government has produced over 1.5 terabytes of data, totaling more than 2 million documents and roughly 6 million pages, and it has informed Mr. Lischewski that it intends to continue producing more documents," Lischewski's attorneys argue in court documents.

"The discovery produced is diverse, and the government has refused to provide substantive detail regarding what that discovery includes."

Lischewski's lawyers said their client is "still combing through the millions of documents received," preventing his legal team from assessing just what motions it might need to file related to the government's evidence, adding that it is premature to set a deadline for filing motions until the government finishes producing documents.

In May, Lischewski was indicted in a separate criminal case on a charge of participating in the fixing of prices of packaged seafood.

Earlier this year, he stepped down as CEO of Bumble Bee to focus on the case. If found guilty he could face a $1 million (€867,345) fine and a 10-year jail term.

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