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In reply to the discussion: Black farmers were deliberately sold 'fake seeds' in scheme to steal their land: repo [View all]Snake Plissken
(4,103 posts)I doubt this middleman who ripped them off cared about anything but getting the money in his pocket
The article is very deceiving because it leads you to believe that each farmer purchased his seed through independent individual orders and they were all shipped individually, when in fact it was all purchase on at a trade show and left in one big shipment from the factory.
If this was some conspiracy by a seed company to drive Black people or anyone else out of business by stealing their land, they would be facing criminal charges, this would not be a civil suit, it would be a criminal case then followed by a civil suit. Technically the FBI should be involved since it did cross state lines from Mississippi to Tennessee,
The court document specifies that the fraud took place in a 3rd party Mississippi warehouse, and not at the plant where the seed was shipped from. It was a middleman who ripped them off at a 3rd party facility in Mississippi and the seed company is also a plaintiff because they're the party who ultimately sold these farmers the seed, but if the FOB was at manufacturing plant and not the farmers property then it would be not longer the seed company's liability as soon as the seed left their dock, and
I wouldn't be surprised if this lowlife criminal was doing it to all his customers to a certain degree just like drug dealers cut their product, but this time he got carried away and mixed 100% garbage in.
A corrupt middleman ripping this farmers off is quite a bit different that a billion dollar seed company deliberately selling Black farmers bogus seed to drive them out of business.