JBS moves on from Batista scandal

GREELEY — It is business as usual for Greeley-based JBS USA, the U.S.-based subsidiary of Brazilian meatpacker JBS S.A., which found itself in the crosshairs after the company’s CEO Wesley Batista and his brother Joesley Batista, the company’s former chairman, were embroiled in a corruption and insider-trading scandal in Brazil.

U.S. company officials are quick to say that the Batistas’ legal issues in Brazil had no impact on U.S. operations, yet in the view of some and as noted in legal filings, the issue precipitated the recent sale of JBS feedlots in the United States.

As…