Trial to address Miss. Beef Processors plant fraud

Trial to address Miss. Beef Processors plant fraud

Trial to address Miss. Beef Processors plant fraudA jury trial is scheduled to begin today against the owner of a refrigeration company who allegedly pocketed state taxpayer money for work and equipment that was never produced.

James Draper, of Mount Juliet Tenn., will argue he was owed the $20,000 he kept for services provided to the failed Mississippi Beef Processors plant, his attorney Ken Coghlan of Oxford, told the Clarion-Ledger last week.

Draper will be the first defendant to go to trial in the multiple indictments stemming from the failed beef plant.

Daily Mississippian
7/21/8