Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—January 29, 2014. Joel Rakower, along with his solely-owned corporation, Transship Discounts Ltd., pleaded guilty today in federal court in Brooklyn, N.Y., to violating the Lacey Act by mislabeling imported piranhas, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Robert G. Dreher for the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the Department of Justice and Queens County District Attorney Richard A. Brown.
In the plea agreement, Rakower admitted that his company purchased piranhas from a Hong Kong…
