{"id":1590065,"date":"2022-08-05T06:09:35","date_gmt":"2022-08-05T10:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1590065"},"modified":"2022-08-05T06:09:46","modified_gmt":"2022-08-05T10:09:46","slug":"tyson-foods-refusing-to-comply-with-subpoena-for-meat-price-gouging-probe-ny-attorney-general-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tyson-foods-refusing-to-comply-with-subpoena-for-meat-price-gouging-probe-ny-attorney-general-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyson Foods refusing to comply with subpoena for meat price gouging probe, NY attorney general says"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftyson-foods-refusing-to-comply-with-subpoena-for-meat-price-gouging-probe-ny-attorney-general-says%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1590065&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>By Jonathan Stempel<\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK (Reuters) \u2013     Tyson Foods Inc, one of the largest U.S. meat producers, is refusing to comply with a subpoena for a civil probe into possible price gouging during the COVID-19 pandemic, New York\u2019s attorney general said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Letitia James, the attorney general, asked a state judge in Manhattan to require Tyson to turn over materials including contractual terms, prices, and profit margins for its sales of meat to New York retailers from December 2019 to April 2022.<\/p>\n<p>James said Tyson stopped complying after providing \u201climited\u201d information, based on the Springdale, Arkansas-based company\u2019s \u201cnovel and unfounded argument\u201d that New York\u2019s price gouging law did not apply to meat imported from outside the state.<\/p>\n<p>That argument \u201ccan be tested only by examining the very materials that Tyson now refuses to produce,\u201d James said in a court filing.<\/p>\n<p>Tyson declined to comment. It has said it has raised meat prices to offset soaring costs for labor and livestock feed.<\/p>\n<p>According to court papers, Tyson has about one-fifth of the U.S. market for fresh and frozen chicken, beef and pork.<\/p>\n<p>James\u2019 office had no immediate additional comment about her probe.<\/p>\n<p>In March, James launched a rulemaking process to crack down on price gouging, examining whether big companies were using the pandemic and rising inflation as an excuse to stick consumers with higher prices on basic goods.<\/p>\n<p>She said her office has during the pandemic received hundreds of complaints about meat price gouging, reinforced by media reports that average prices rose 20.9% for beef, 16.8% for pork and 9.2% for chicken from November 2020 to November 2021.<\/p>\n<p>James said New York law bans \u201cunconscionably excessive\u201d prices and gives her power to impose civil fines on sellers that charge them on essential goods during market disruptions.<\/p>\n<p>In January, President Joe Biden announced a plan to support independent meat processors and ranchers to address a lack of \u201cmeaningful competition\u201d in their sectors.<\/p>\n<p>(This story refiles to correct headline) <\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Jonathan Stempel in New York; Additional reporting by Tom Polansek in Chicago; Editing by Lisa Shumaker)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/tyson-foods-ignoring-subpoena\/file-photo-logo-of-tyson-foods-is-seen-in-davos\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI7212T-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI7212T-VIEWIMAGE\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/?attachment_id=2733787\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI7212S-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI7212S-VIEWIMAGE\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) \u2013 Tyson Foods Inc, one of the largest U.S. meat producers, is refusing to comply with a subpoena for a civil probe into possible<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":1889014,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1590065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_finder_url":"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/tyson-foods-refusing-to\/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tyson-foods-refusing-to","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1590065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1889014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1590065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1590065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1590065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}