A WHALE OF TROUBLE: I’ve only been to Santa Monica a few times but I can assure it is one of your consummate Cali towns – dripping in coolness, surfing, shopping and a West Coast ecological awareness that you just don’t mess with. That’s why it’s mind-boggling that fishmonger Ginichi Ohira, 54, tried to nonchalantly pull off one of the most egregious, in-your-face sushi misdeeds ever seen in America.
Get this: Ohira clandestinely sold blood-fresh sei whale meat to a restaurant, where it was thinly sliced and served to a select Los Angeles area…
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