Pizza Ranch controversies
Controversies tied to this brand in public sources. A listing is not a finding of fault.
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2001
Criminal case involving co-founder Lawrence Vander Esch
Lawrence Vander Esch left Pizza Ranch after being arrested and imprisoned for sexual abuse involving the fraudulent acquisition of semen samples from teenage employees under the pretext of a prostate study. The referenced account says he was released in March 2006 and that a district court judge later vacated the conviction and cleared his record, citing an Iowa Supreme Court ruling in a separate case.