[MPWG] NEWS: Sentenced for selling ginseng

[Olivia Kwong]

http://www.claycountyprogress.com/articles/2010/01/28/news/doc4b61b2f094f41777122593.txt

Sentenced for selling ginseng

Thursday, January 28, 2010 12:07 PM CST Howard William .Speedy. Ledford, 
55, of Hayesville, was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Asheville on 
Jan. 12 to serve one year in prison for illegally selling and transporting 
wild American ginseng.  Ledford pleaded guilty on Nov. 9 to two counts 
of selling and transporting wild American ginseng in violation of North 
Carolina Law and the Lacey Act. Ledford admitted that in 2004 and 2005 he 
sold approximately $109,000 worth of wild ginseng to a customer in Georgia 
without the proper export certificates, the U.S. Justice Department said.

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