The Butcher, the Embezzler, and the Fall Guy: A Family Memoir of Scandal and Greed in the Meat Industry

The Butcher, the Embezzler, and the Fall Guy: A Family Memoir of Scandal and Greed in the Meat IndustryThree powerful men converge on the banks of the Red Cedar River in the early 1900s in southern Minnesota George Albert Hormel, founder of what will become the $10 billion food conglomerate Hormel Foods; Alpha LaRue Eberhart, the author's paternal grandfather and Hormel's Executive Vice President and Corporate Secretary; and Ransome Josiah Thomson, Hormel's comptroller. Over ten years, Thomson will embezzle $1. 2 million from the company's coffers,

Their chance comes when a man goes missing

As the authorities and the media surround the premises

old-world style

Christopher Paul Curtis

and it soon becomes clear to her that a single misstep could be catastrophic

Bestselling author Sherman Alexie tells the story of Junior

it doesn't have to be that way

filled with drama

is there any other kind

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Published: 10/26/2021

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