- Programme
- Ineligible (Proceedings Completed)
- Since
- 21 May 2025
- Until
- 9 May 2028
- Stated grounds
- Ineligible (Proceedings Completed) · Reciprocal · Debarment was proposed because on September 1, 2020, Channing
Strother (STROTHER), Chief Administrative Law Judge, issued a U. S.
Department of Agriculture (USDA) order to CMF (for CMFâs failure to
pay assessments from 2017 to 2019) to pay $89,246.55 to the Mushroom
Council and $5,000 to the Treasurer of the United States.
On November 9, 2021, STROTHER issued a USDA order for CMFâs
failure to pay assessments from January 2020 to November 2020, and
he ordered CMF to pay $24,812.53 to the Mushroom Council and
$5,000 to the Treasurer of the United States.
CMFâs ongoing failure to pay debts owed to the government or
instrumentally the Mushroom Council, misconduct for failing to pay
required assessments, failure to maintain records, and report required
information to the Mushroom Council on eleven occasions established
causes debarment governmentwide debarment under 2 C.F.R. §
180.800(d), as this misconduct constituted a cause of so serious or
compelling nature as to affect present responsibility. For further information contact the U.S. Department of Agriculture Agency Exclusions POC.
- Source
- SAM.gov Exclusions (US federal)
- Last confirmed
- 24 Oct 2026