Los angeles- A lawyer for food giant Dole has outlined to a los Angeles judge evidence of a scheme to collect millions of dollars in damages through fradulent claims to Nicaraguan banana planation workers. The allegations involve lawsuits over the pesticide DBCP, which was used in the 1970's and then banned.
Dole attorney Scott Eldeman told a hearing Tuesday that lawyers in Nicaragua recruited poverty stricken men to pose as plantation workers and claim they were rendered sterille by use of the pesticide. Edelman says the men were given seminars about the industry and told to hide their children.
