Tagged: chicken industry price-fixing conspiracy

DOJ’s Criminal Cartel Prosecution of Chicken Industry Expands Net — Koch Foods and Four Pilgrim’s Pride Executives Charged

The Justice Department’s Antitrust Division continues to target a sprawling cartel investigation of the chicken industry.  In its most recent action, the Justice Department announced an indictment of Koch Foods and four individual executives from Pilgrim’s Pride tying them into the broad price-fixing conspiracy for the sale of broiler chicken products to the restaurant and retail industries. The expanding Justice Department investigation has charged 14...

Justice Department’s Antitrust Division Charges Four Executives in Chicken Price-Fixing Investigation (Part I of III)

The Justice Department’s Antitrust Division recently announced the indictment in Colorado federal court of four executives from two chicken producer companies for participation in a long-running price-fixing and bid-rigging conspiracy. The indictment charges Jayson Penn, president and CEO of Colorado-based Pilgrim’s Pride, and former Vice President Roger Austin, and Georgia-based poultry producer Claxton Poultry’s President Mikell Fries and Scott Brady, a Claxton Poultry Vice President. ...