Butcher, the Embezzler, and the Fall Guy

In 1922, George A. Hormel—founder of the multibillion-dollar company Hormel Foods—fired Gretchen Cherington’s grandfather, Alpha LaRue Eberhart, after a decade-long embezzlement scandal. Was he, as rumors suggested, complicit? Cherington digs deep to understand what really happened one hundred years ago—and to make sense of her complicated legacy.

In 1922, George A. Hormel - fondatorul companiei de miliarde de dolari Hormel Foods - l-a concediat pe bunicul lui Gretchen Cherington, Alpha LaRue Eberhart, dupa un scandal de delapidare de un deceniu.