Young Living Essential Oils must pay $760,000 in fines, restitution, and community service payments for trafficking in illegally harvested wood and timber products.
The company, based in Lehi, Utah, pleaded guilty Sept. 18 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah to misdemeanor violations of the Lacey Act and the Endangered Species Act (US v. Young Living Essential Oils, D. Utah, No. 17-CR-541, Misdemeanor 9/18/17).
The company was fined $500,000, and agreed to pay $135,000 in restitution and make a $125,000 community service payment to fund the conservation of protected species ...
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