Original Story: cnbc.com
Bumble Bee Foods agreed to pay $6 million to settle criminal charges Wednesday in the death of a worker who was cooked in an oven with tons of tuna. A Newark criminal lawyer is following this story closely.
District Attorney Jackie Lacey said the settlement is the largest payout in a California workplace-violation death.
Jose Melena, 62, died three years ago in a 270-degree oven at the seafood company's Santa Fe Springs, California, plant after a co-worker mistakenly believed he was in the bathroom and filled a pressure cooker with six tons of canned tuna.
"This is the worst circumstances of death I have ever, ever witnessed," said Deputy District Attorney Hoon Chun, who noted he had tried more than 40 murder cases over two decades. "I think any person would prefer to be - if they had to die some way - would prefer to be shot or stabbed than to be slowly cooked in an oven. " A Grand Rapids personal injury lawyer represents clients in cases in which injury or death occurs due to the negligence of another party.
Bumble Bee, its plant Operations Director Angel Rodriguez and former safety manager Saul Florez had each been charged with three counts of violating Occupational Safety & Health Administration rules that caused a death.
Under the agreement, Bumble Bee will be plead guilty to a misdemeanor of willfully failing to have an effective safety program in January 2017 if it completes several safety measures that include upgrading ovens so workers don't get trapped inside and providing worker training.
"We will never forget the unfathomable loss of our colleague Jose Melena and we are committed to ensuring that employee safety remains a top priority at all our facilities," the San Diego-based company said in a statement.
Florez, 42, of Whittier was sentenced to three years of probation and will face fines and penalties of about $19,000 after pleading guilty to a single felony count of violating a workplace safety rule that caused a death.
Rodriguez, 63, of Riverside, agreed to plead guilty to a misdemeanor in 18 months and pay about $11,000 after he completes 320 hours of community service and worker safety courses.
The two men had faced up to three years in prison and fines up to $250,000 and the company had faced fines up to $1.5 million.
Melena's family will receive $1.5 million under the settlement. It does not prevent them from also suing the company or receiving workers' compensation funds, Hoon said. A Charleston workers compensation lawyer represents clients in workplace injury cases.
Melena, 62, had been loading pallets of canned tuna into 35-foot-long ovens at the company's Santa Fe Springs plant before dawn Oct. 11, 2012.
When a supervisor noticed him missing, an announcement was made on the intercom and employees searched for him in the facility and parking lot, according to a report by the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health.
His body was found two hours later after the pressure cooker was turned off, cooled and opened.
The state's occupational safety agency previously cited the San Diego-based company for failing to properly assess the danger to employees working in large ovens and fined it $74,000. A Memphis employee rights lawyer is reviewing the details of this case.
Melena's family agreed to the settlement, but declined to comment, prosecutors said.
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6 ARRESTED IN CHINA AFTER DRESSING ROOM SEX VIDEO GOES VIRAL
Original Story: latimes.com
It’s been the buzz of the Chinese Internet for days: a viral video of a young couple having sex in the dressing room of a Uniqlo clothing store in Beijing’s Sanlitun neighborhood. Shared millions of times over, the footage has prompted hordes of selfie-taking gawkers to descend on the shop and set state-run media outlets to tsk-tsking about the impropriety of it all. A Hong Kong criminal litigation attorney is following this story closely.
The Cyberspace Administration of China, the country’s Internet watchdog, reprimanded two of the nation’s main web portals, Sina and Tencent, for failing to stop the spread of the video, and police said they were investigating. On Sunday, Beijing police said they had arrested the couple in the video and four others.
According to Beijing TV, the police investigation is focused on two questions: first, who posted the video and second, whether the tape was a publicity stunt intended to drum up business. A brief police statement said one 19-year-old man surnamed Sun was charged with disseminating obscene material, while three others were being detained, along with the couple. Police indicated the video dated from April.
Pornography is illegal in China and porn websites are blocked; red banners in cities across the country urge people to stay away from smut. Until 1997, extramarital sex could result in criminal charges, but legal reforms and other factors have led to increasingly liberal sexual attitudes. A Hong Kong criminal litigation attorney assist clients in the steps before and after being charged with a criminal activity.
“Since the advent of the Internet, people can more easily find sexual partners. So it’s gradually more open,” Li Yinhe, a well-known Chinese sex researcher, said at a recent forum. “Fifteen percent of people had premarital sex in 1989. In 2013, this number was 71%. This is quite a revolution.”
According to the official New China News Agency, China's criminal law stipulates that those convicted of disseminating obscene books, films, pictures and video clips could face jail terms of up to two years, while making obscene products to earn profit can carry a term of up to life in prison. A Shanghai criminal lawyer is reviewing the details of this case.
Uniqlo, a fast-fashion clothing chain based in Japan that is similar to the Gap, has denied any involvement in the creation or dissemination of the video and last week posted a statement on its website urging customers to “abide by social moral standards, maintain social justice, and use the fitting rooms properly."
In the video, the man is wearing a T-shirt and jeans and the woman is naked except for jeans and panties around her calves. Both participants’ faces are clearly visible, raising questions about whether the video was distributed with their knowledge or consent. Near the end of the video, a woman’s voice is heard over an intercom saying, “Welcome to the Uniqlo store in Sanlitun.” A Shanghai criminal lawyer represents clients charged with criminal conduct.
Chinese authorities said that the video had “violated core socialist values.” In a commentary published by the state-run tabloid Global Times, writer Shan Renping lamented that “on the present-day Internet, there are many phenomenon that are moving further away from our noble traditions.”
It’s been the buzz of the Chinese Internet for days: a viral video of a young couple having sex in the dressing room of a Uniqlo clothing store in Beijing’s Sanlitun neighborhood. Shared millions of times over, the footage has prompted hordes of selfie-taking gawkers to descend on the shop and set state-run media outlets to tsk-tsking about the impropriety of it all. A Hong Kong criminal litigation attorney is following this story closely.
The Cyberspace Administration of China, the country’s Internet watchdog, reprimanded two of the nation’s main web portals, Sina and Tencent, for failing to stop the spread of the video, and police said they were investigating. On Sunday, Beijing police said they had arrested the couple in the video and four others.
According to Beijing TV, the police investigation is focused on two questions: first, who posted the video and second, whether the tape was a publicity stunt intended to drum up business. A brief police statement said one 19-year-old man surnamed Sun was charged with disseminating obscene material, while three others were being detained, along with the couple. Police indicated the video dated from April.
Pornography is illegal in China and porn websites are blocked; red banners in cities across the country urge people to stay away from smut. Until 1997, extramarital sex could result in criminal charges, but legal reforms and other factors have led to increasingly liberal sexual attitudes. A Hong Kong criminal litigation attorney assist clients in the steps before and after being charged with a criminal activity.
“Since the advent of the Internet, people can more easily find sexual partners. So it’s gradually more open,” Li Yinhe, a well-known Chinese sex researcher, said at a recent forum. “Fifteen percent of people had premarital sex in 1989. In 2013, this number was 71%. This is quite a revolution.”
According to the official New China News Agency, China's criminal law stipulates that those convicted of disseminating obscene books, films, pictures and video clips could face jail terms of up to two years, while making obscene products to earn profit can carry a term of up to life in prison. A Shanghai criminal lawyer is reviewing the details of this case.
Uniqlo, a fast-fashion clothing chain based in Japan that is similar to the Gap, has denied any involvement in the creation or dissemination of the video and last week posted a statement on its website urging customers to “abide by social moral standards, maintain social justice, and use the fitting rooms properly."
In the video, the man is wearing a T-shirt and jeans and the woman is naked except for jeans and panties around her calves. Both participants’ faces are clearly visible, raising questions about whether the video was distributed with their knowledge or consent. Near the end of the video, a woman’s voice is heard over an intercom saying, “Welcome to the Uniqlo store in Sanlitun.” A Shanghai criminal lawyer represents clients charged with criminal conduct.
Chinese authorities said that the video had “violated core socialist values.” In a commentary published by the state-run tabloid Global Times, writer Shan Renping lamented that “on the present-day Internet, there are many phenomenon that are moving further away from our noble traditions.”
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