After Peanut Corporation of America was found guilty for the salmonella outbreak which had killed nine people and sickened 637 others, Stewart Parnell, the president of the corporation, came to Washington on Wednesday to face the trial. Three processing plants of Texas, Virginia and Georgia, had been closed after the investigators found the dirty conditions in which the peanut butter was made.

The peanut butter made at PCA sickened and killed people from 44 states in the United States and Canada and the products which had been recalled represented one of the biggest number of such kind in the history of the United States.

Yet, Stewart Parnell invoked the Fifth Amendment right of not to incriminate himself, when asked about his position by the reports outside the court in Washington. PCA filed for bankruptcy on Friday after their three processing plants had been closed and their products had been recalled.

 The processing plant in Blakely, Georgia, was discovered by the Food and Drug Administration, to have allegedly sent salmonella-tainted products on the market 12 times in 2007 and 2008. That was the point when the Justice Department began the criminal investigation on the corporation. In one of the messages sent by Parnell, he accused the investigators about the extraordinary costing of the delay in getting the test results, knowing what would have been discovered.

In addition, one of the former managers who worked at the PCA in 2006 stated that the processing plant in Texas was lacking sanitary conditions. He said that he had tried many times to e-mail Parnell and the health department of Texas, but he had never received any answer. He has now decided to speak to the press because of his granddaughter who got sick of salmonella for three weeks in December, after eating the peanut butter from the Texas processing plant.