1912 Grandfather, Mike "Pop" Stanko, immigrated from Poland, started meat packing business at the foot of the Big Horn Mountains in Sheridan, Wyoming.
<br>1918 Rudy Richard Stanko was born.
<br>1920 Grandfather, George Legerski, started meat packing business in Sheridan, Wyoming.
<br>1946 Rudy R. Stanko and Elizabeth Ann Legerski were married in Sheridan, Wyoming.
<br>1947 Rudy "Butch" Stanko was born.
<br>1951 Rudy R. Stanko started a meat packing business in Casper, Wyoming called the Rocky Mountain Packing Company.
<br>1969 Financial hardships fell on Rocky Mountain Packing Company, and it was sold to Wyoming Beef Packers.
<br>1970 Rudy R. Stanko and Rudy "Butch" Stanko started a meat-packing business in Gordon, Nebraska, called the Nebraska Beef Packers.
<br>1973 Rudy "Butch" Stanko started a meat packing business in Gering, Nebraska, called the Nebraska Beef Packers.
<br>1976 First federal indictment issued against Nebraska Beef in Gordon, Nebraska
<br>1977 Rudy "Butch" Stanko started a meat packing business in Glasgow, Montana, called the Nebraska Beef Packers.
<br>1979 Second federal indictment issued against Nebraska Beef in Gering, Nebraska; Glasgow, Montana; and owner, Rudy "Butch" Stanko. Glasgow plant closed.
<br>1980 Rudy "Butch" Stanko retired, financially secure, at thirty-three years of age.
<br>1981 In June, Rudy "Butch" Stanko leased/purchased meat packing plant in Denver called Cattle King Beef Company, using the Nebraska Beef brand name.
<br>1981 Plea agreement on the second indictment reached. Judge fined Rudy "Butch" Stanko $1000, suspended a six-month jail sentence, and placed on probation for four years.
<br>1983 Cattle King Beef Company was closed in December.
<br>1984 In February, federal probation was revoked. Rudy "Butch" Stanko started serving the six month jail sentence in October.
<br>1984 Third indictment was issued against the Cattle King plant and its owner in April.
<br>1984 Nebraska Beef in Gering, Nebraska was sold to Packerland in June.
<br>1984 In September, trial of Cattle King and owner, Rudy "Butch" Stanko.
<br>1985 Rudy "Butch" Stanko began to write book The Score about the world-wide meat conspiracy.
<br>1985 Fourth indictment issued against Nebraska Beef in Gering, Nebraska, and its past owner. Rudy "Butch" Stanko was his own lawyer. Charges dropped.
<br>1986 The Score was completed.