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Salem Statesman Journal
A manager of a Washington-based seed company was sentenced to three years in federal prison for laundering and wiring about $15 million through multiple schemes to defraud the company s former owner and its customers, including one involving an Albany distribution facility.
Former Jacklin Seed Company general manager Christopher Claypool, 53, of Spokane, was sentenced after pleading guilty March 15 to charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and money laundering against the company s former owner, J.R. Simplot Company, U.S. Attorney Billy J. Williams said in a release Wednesday.
U.S. Attorney s Office officials said Claypool s schemes included packaging seed varieties with false and misleading labels, embezzling more than $12 million while posing as a foreign sales partner and conspiring with a travel agency in Spokane to inflate costs of his international business travel.