The Boston Globe    President pardons man in decades-old
Gloucester fish scandal  James A. Bordinaro Jr., a former
Gloucester fish company manager who served time in federal
prison for his role in a 1980s-era bid-rigging scandal, was
pardoned by President Obama Friday, according to the White
House. From the 1980s into the early 1990s, Bordinaro was
general manager of Gloucester’s Empire Fish Co., which, along
with several other New England fish processing companies,
conspired to fix the price of fish sold to the Department of
Defense, according to Globe reports at the time. Prosecutors
also charged Empire and its co-conspirators with falsifying
documents certifying that their catch was from US waters, a
requirement of government contracts. In fact, much of the fish
the group sold to the government was from Canadian waters and
had been “laundered” through a series of secret transfers.
Bordinaro and Empire Fish were fined a total of $355,000, and
the three-generation family business went into bankruptcy before