Two men who owned a meatpacking company in Brooklyn, NY have been charged in a scheme to intentionally mislabel beef products for profit.
Howard Mora and Alan Buxbaum were co-owners of A. Stein Meat Products and used counterfeit USDA stamps to misbrand Choice beef cuts as Prime.
The men purchased beef that had already been graded Choice and then told their employees to carve off the Choice stamp and re-stamp them as Prime.
The meat was sold at inflated prices to customers in the New York City metro area.
“Customers and consumers are entitled to get what they pay for, especially when the product is food on their tables,” stated U.S. Attorney Richard Donoghue.
If convicted, the two men face up to 20 years in prison.
