Georgia U.S. District Court Judge W. Louis Sands sentenced Samuel Lightsey, 50, a former operations manager at the peanut firm's Blakely, Ga. plant, to serve three years in prison. Daniel ...

Hearn posed questions about Kellogg and other clients to Samuel Lightsey, a former plant manager who was initially named in the federal indictment with another manager, Danny Kilgore. Kilgore and ...

Former plant managers Samuel Lightsey and Daniel Kilgore were sentenced on Thursday, Oct. 1, 2015, to three and six years in federal prison, respectively, by U.S. District Court Judge W.

Samuel Lightsey has been on the stand for about five days, reviewing shipping slips, laboratory test results, emails and other documents one by one under questioning by federal prosecutor Patrick ...

Samuel Lightsey and Daniel Kilgore will be sentenced after their former boss, PCA owner Stewart Parnell, received the harshest sentence ever for a U.S. producer in a food-borne illness case.

Former PCA plant manager Samuel Lightsey, a government witness, is helping prosecutors prove that fraud and conspiracy were everyday business practices at PCA. When Lightsey resumes his testimony ...

Samuel Lightsey also said that peanut broker Michael Parnell, Stewart Parnell’s brother, told him not to worry about false certificates of analysis (COAs) that were being prepared by PCA for ...

Peanut Corporation of America owner Stewart Parnell, his food broker brother Michael Parnell, Georgia plant manager Samuel Lightsey and Georgia plant quality assurance manager Mary Wilkerson ...

Samuel Lightsey was the manager of Peanut Corporation of America’s plant in Blakely, Georgia, when an outbreak of salmonella traced to the company’s peanuts killed nine people and sickened ...

The trial is in a break for about 15 minutes. Prosecutors showed PCA peanut plant pictures to Samuel Lightsey. He is describing each of them and telling the jury that they all show dirty equipment ...

Named in the indictment were company owner Stewart Parnell, his brother and company vice president Michael Parnell, Georgia plant manager Samuel Lightsey and Georgia plant quality assurance ...