Mr. Parnell should be held criminally liable, due to him ignoring the safety of the public. He knew about the salmonella breakout in the company’s product, but he kept quiet about the peanuts being contaminated. Even though the peanuts tested positive for salmonella, he continued to order the employees to supply the effective peanuts, which is a crime. Mr. Parnell’s emails shows his negligence to public safety. The emails can be used as evidence against him. The defense that is being raised for Mr. Parnell by his father is unsupported. Therefore his father’s defense is invalid. In this case one employee departs one company to join the archrival and is blamed for giving secret information to the new company. Mr. Wang is charged with giving
