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Wisconsin wildlife officials ate $20,000 of illegal caviar, prosecutors say. Now the sturgeon general faces charges.
Antonia Noori Farzan, The Washington Post
Feb. 18, 2021
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Deep in the frozen heart of Wisconsin, state wildlife officials allegedly dined like oligarchs, feasting on tens of thousands of dollars worth of caviar and passing around jars of the prized delicacy at team meetings.
Meanwhile, some of their colleagues were working undercover to expose the long-running scheme responsible for the lavish spread, and tipping federal authorities off to a world of clandestine after-hours meetings at state laboratories and five-gallon buckets filled with gleaming fish roe.
Prosecutors charged the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources' top sturgeon expert yesterday with obstructing an investigation into allegations that his employees have been funneling the valuable fish's eggs to a network of caviar processors under the guise of a scientific study.
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