Bones, Plastic & Metal Found In Chicken Tenders Served To NYC Public School Students

Bones, Plastic & Metal Found In Chicken Tenders Served To NYC Public School Students

Plastic, bones and metal were found in chicken tenders served to New York City public school students — jurors heard this week at the bribery trial of a former top Department of Education official.

Eric Goldstein — the former head of the department’s Office of School Support Services — is accused of taking bribes from the owners of a Texas-based meat supplier, Somma Foods, to turn a blind eye to the gross grub.

“Students and staff complained about the food because they found bones and plastic in the chicken tenders,” Brooklyn federal prosecutor Andrew Grubin said in court Wednesday.

 

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“One person choked and had to be rescued.”

Somma owners Brian Twomey, Michael Turley and Blaine Iler — who are on trial alongside Goldstein — were hoping to “make millions of dollars by selling food to the DOE,” Grubin said in his opening remarks.

The owners gave Goldstein seed money to start his own meat-supply business — and in exchange, Goldstein “would make sure that DOE bought Somma products like chicken,” Grubin said.

“That’s in all fast food restaurants also and in grocery stores,” someone commented. “Idk if you guys don’t know but 97% of the stuff we consume is full of all of that. That’s why we get sick easily and cereal is full of small metals,” another person wrote.