As reported on AUGUST 17, 2022 on The Texas Lawbook, Ten members of a 12-person jury would have found the former CEO of Blue Bell not guilty of the felony fraud and conspiracy charges the government brought against him stemming from a 2015 deadly listeria outbreak linked to the company’s creameries.

As reported on April 21, 2021 on The Aspen Times, A man with links to the Texas oil business was charged with felony sexual assault earlier this month after allegedly raping a woman at his hotel in Aspen, according to court documents.

As reported on October 28, 2020 on Food Safety News. Chris Flood of Houston and John D. Cline of San Francisco, the defense team that got him off on the same charges in July, is again defending Kruse, the 66-year old resident of Brenham, TX. 

As reported on September 2, 2020 on LAW360, The Fifthe Circuit on Tuesday gave former Stanford Financial Group executive Gilbert Lopez another opportunity to challenge his 20-year prison sentence for his role in Robert Allen Stanford’s $7 billion Ponzi scheme, ordering a lower court to reconsider a bid claiming that Lopez’s trial attorneys led him astray.

As reported on JULY 15, 2020 on Bloomberg, A federal judge dismissed felony charges against Blue Bell Creameries’ former chief executive officer over a fatal 2015 outbreak of listeria linked to tainted ice cream.

As reported on JULY 15, 2020 on The New York Times, A federal judge on Wednesday dismissed charges against the former president of Blue Bell Creameries, who U.S. prosecutors said concealed from customers what the company knew about contaminated ice cream linked to a 2015 listeria outbreak.