Tagged: CEO price fixing

Bumble Bee CEO Convicted of Participating in Price-Fixing Conspiracy

Global companies are paying greater attention to criminal antitrust risks – and with good reason.  We often dwell on the impact to a company of a major FCPA investigation.  A global criminal antitrust investigation often in destabilizing given the mature global enforcement environment.  Cartel members often have to respond to multiple jurisdictions to resolve their potential liability. In early December 2019, after a four-week trial,...

CEOs Under the Criminal Spotlight – More C-Suite Misconduct

We live in a bizarre time — an information age where lines are blurred between truth and lies — a strange era in which our daily doses of information are dominated by scandals, corruption, and repeated claims of “fake news.”  One of the unfortunate consequences is that otherwise important issues often fade in competition with these ever-pervasive scandals.  Please do not misunderstand me – the...