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price fixing
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Food Safety News
Claxton Poultry Farms president hopes to go on safari while waiting for 2021 trial
By Dan Flynn
A Denver trial in a poultry price-fixing case now won't begin until Feb. 16, 2021, and one defendant hopes to use some of that extra time for a hunting safari…
Antitrust Advocate
Fishy Price Fixing Leads to 40-month Jail Stint
By Darley Maw
On June 16, following a monthlong trial, Christopher Lischewski, former CEO and president of Bumble Bee Foods LLC, was sentenced by Judge Edward Chen of the Northern District of California…
Food Safety News
DOJ’s Anti Trust cops have food industry price-fixing in their sights
By Dan Flynn
The federal government is getting serious about food industry price-fixing. The recent sentencing of a tuna executive, the proper use of a leniency loophole, and cooperation in the poultry industry indictment…
Cartel Capers
Why did the Chicken Cross the Road? To Visit DOJ and Score a Leniency
A. The Broiler Chicken Civil Litigation/Criminal Indictment On June 3, 2020, a grand jury in Colorado returned an indictment charging executives from Pilgrim’s Pride Corporation and Claxton Poultry…
The Food Court
Chicken Industry Executives Indicted for Criminal Price-Fixing and Bid Rigging
By Luis M. Reyes, Lori Lustrin, Scott N. Wagner
On June 3, 2020, the Department of Justice (DOJ) indicted executives from Pilgrim’s Pride Corporation and Claxton Poultry Farms—two of the country’s largest chicken producers. The criminal action was filed…
Cartel Capers
Upcoming Sentencing of Former Bumble Bee CEO Christopher Lischewski
US v. Lischewski, Case No. 3:18-cr-00203-EMC (N.D. Cal.) Christopher Lischewski, the former CEO of Bumble Bee who was convicted of price fixing after a trial last December, is scheduled to…
Food Safety News
Pilgrim’s CEO among 4 poultry executives indicted by federal grand Jury
By Dan Flynn
The chief executive officer of the nation's second-largest poultry producer is summoned to appear today at 2 p.m in U.S. District Court to face the indictment by a federal Grand…
The Food Court
Peanut Farmers Successfully Allege Price-Fixing Conspiracy Against Industry Giants
By Brianna Sainte, Lori Lustrin, Ilana Drescher
In the latest of a series of antitrust lawsuits involving the food industry, a Virginia federal court last week denied a motion to dismiss a class action lawsuit alleging a…
The Right Coast
The unmasking of Joe Biden | TheHill
For three years, many in the media have expressed horror at the notion of the Trump campaign colluding with Russia to influence the 2016 election. We know there was never…
Ogletree Deakins Insights
DOJ and FTC Warn Employers Against COVID-19–Related Business Collusion
The United States Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Antitrust Division and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) warned employers in a joint statement issued on April 13, 2020, that they are “on…