OMAHA, NEB. — Nebraska Beef Ltd., a meat processor based in Omaha, Neb., received additional sentencing information from the US District of Nebraska.

According to court documents, Judge Robert Rossiter Jr. stated that the company needed to pay a $200,000 fine for falsifying USDA grading records along with serving one year of probation. The company pled guilty to the fine in October.

Nebraska Beef also recently paid a $550,000 fine related to a civil lawsuit for this case with the government. 

Earlier in the year, former chief financial officer for Nebraska Beef, James Timmerman and former accountant Dolese Tippery was put on probation and fined $1,000. Timmerman received two years of probation. Tippery received six months.

Court documents stated that as early as 2012, senior employees were involved in removing “original labels on the boxes of beef and replacing them with higher-grade labels such as Choice and Prime. The relabeled products were then returned to the food-processing company and put into inventory.”

The original case, which started in 2016, led to federal officials asking Nebraska Beef to produce grading records for at least 30 carcasses, according to information provided by the US Attorney’s Office for the District of Nebraska. 

A corporate officer for Nebraska Beef altered the grading records in printed form to attorneys for Nebraska Beef for delivery to the grand jury. 

The investigation for the case was conducted through the USDA’s Office of Inspector General and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.