The 50-year-old citrus industry executive was also fined$100,000. His sentence begins Jan. 19. Lee's lawyer, HarrisonSlaughter of Orlando, filed an immediate appeal with the 11thDistrict Court of Appeal in Atlanta.
Lee was convicted of repackaging alleged contaminated frozenorange juice concentrate from damaged drums at his 500,000-sfMid-Florida Freezer Warehouses Ltd. in Port Canaveral, FL, 60 milessoutheast of Downtown Orlando. He denied the charges and maintainedthe Florida Citrus Commission permits redrumming defectivecontainers.
The alleged bad juice could have wound up in grocery storefreezers over the past 20 years. Prosecutors, however, could notprove the juice was actually contaminated, only that it had beentransferred from defective containers to new cartons.
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