In response to a federal judge's inquiry of how dairymen were affected by the actions of former Humboldt Creamery CEO Rich Ghilarducci, Ghilarducci's attorney argued that his client is being unfairly blamed for the company's downfall and should be recognized for trying to protect the cooperative.
In a memorandum filed Friday, Ghilarducci's attorney Elliot Peters calls his client “the whipping boy of choice for some dairymen in Humboldt County.”
”Mr. Ghilarducci asks the court to accept his sincere apologies for the mistakes that he made, but also to recognize that it was his objective to protect the cooperative, that he lost a substantial amount of money due to the cooperative's demise,” Peters writes. “And, that it is likely that things would have turned out even worse for the creamery's stakeholders had the cooperative been forced to throw in the towel in 2007.”
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