https://twitter.com/RepJerryNadler/status/1240762737795440640
https://nypost.com/2020/04/18/billionaire-brothers-meat-plants-riddled-with-coronavirus/
The world’s largest meat-processing giant was forced to shut down some of its US plants as more than 100 of its workers tested positive for COVID-19 last week, but the pandemic may be the least of its problems.
The Brazilian billionaire brothers — one of whom owned a Manhattan penthouse — controlling the massive meat producer JBS, which slaughters 13 million animals a day and has revenues of $50 billion a year, have been linked to high-level government corruption that has rocked the South American country.
The Batistas’ company is also being probed in America now for bribery, and has been accused of price-gouging during the COVID-19 crisis. The New York Attorney General, meanwhile, has been asked to look at the company as “an imminent threat” before it goes public on Wall Street.
https://nypost.com/2020/04/18/billionaire-brothers-meat-plants-riddled-with-coronavirus/
JBS became a publicly held company in 2007, and in the same year received a major investment from BNDES (Brazilian Development Bank).[6] In 2007 JBS went through with a US$225m acquisition of U.S. firm Swift & Company,[7] which was the third largest U.S. beef and pork processor, renamed as JBS USA. It leads the world in slaughter capacity, at 51.4 thousand head per day, and continues to focus on production operations, processing, and export plants, nationally and internationally.[citation needed] With the new acquisition, JBS entered the pork market, to end the year as the third largest producer and processor of this type of meat in the United States. The acquisition expanded the company's portfolio to include rights to the worldwide use of the Swift brand.[citation needed]
The next year, JBS acquired Smithfield Foods' beef business. It was renamed JBS Packerland.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JBS_S.A.