The federal officials interviewed watermen on the Virginia island, asking for records related to oyster sales to Crisfield businesses. They took copies of records but did not seize any bivalves; it’s not harvest season.
Federal officials would not confirm or deny the existence of an investigation, saying that’s their policy. But Wyn Hornbuckle, a spokesman for the U.S. Department of Justice, did confirm “federal law enforcement activity” in Crisfield and Tangier last Wednesday.
Tangier Mayor James “Ooker” Eskridge said the officials came in two boats and a helicopter; at first, he said, he thought President Donald Trump had arrived. Trump famously phoned the mayor earlier this month, having seen a program on CNN about how Tangiermen didn’t believe in climate change – their problem was erosion – and had overwhelmingly voted for him.
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Leave these watermen alone. Government overreach is out of hand. Stop this nonsense NOW!!!
ReplyDeleteThe Government will only back off the seafood industry once they have turned it into the Chicken Industry, meaning they want 3 giant corporations buying and selling EVERYTHING and all Watermen as contract workers for these companies making slave wages. You think crabs are expensive now, just wait until 3 people have a monopoly. That is when they will finally back off and let their new formed monopolies get away with murder... because their "too big to fail".
Delete"Coincidence???"
ReplyDeleteDon't lie just like the people being deported for "misstatements" on their naturalization documents.
ReplyDeleteBook Em Dano! The watermen would take every last oyster, crab, and fish out of the bay
ReplyDeleteI have seen this before back in the early 1990's. I represented about thirty of them and most were eventually accepted as filed.
ReplyDeleteOne day "We The People" will be fed up with all the bull, but not yet I guess.
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