The suspects allegedly falsified records, fed incriminating evidence through a paper shredder and conducted a cover-up so pervasive that one investigator calls it "Ice Cream Gate." Indeed, if the 244-count indictment handed up by a Brooklyn grand jury last week can be proved in a trial, a giant scoop of American innocence will have melted away—for the accused is none other than Good Humor Corp., which advertises its ice cream as "the next best thing to love."
The indictment charges that from 1972 through last April, the company falsified records and knowingly shipped out...