Lion Capital, which owns Bumble Bee Foods, allegedly paid off the tuna firm's CEO, Chris Lischewski, to take the heat in the ongoing class action tuna price-fixing lawsuit, according to documents filed Dec. 29 in US District Court for southern California.
US supermarket giant Kroger recently filed a motion urging the court to expand the defendant list to include Lion Capital and Lischewski because these allegations were discovered after the court's July 2017 deadline to amend pleadings.
Plaintiffs previously asked the court in October to add Lion Capital and Lischewski, but only revealed it was because of "newly uncovered facts."
