DOJ antitrust division Archives - Corruption, Crime & Compliance

16 Jun, 2022

DOJ Snares Two More Guilty Pleas in Ongoing Criminal Investigation of Commercial Flooring Business

The Justice Department’s Antitrust Division has had a rough year in the criminal arena. While the Antitrust Division has aggressively blocked several proposed mergers, it has lost several significant criminal cases. The Antitrust Division lost two significant cases for price-fixing in the labor market and is now in the middle of a third criminal trial against five defendants in the chicken producing industry. The Division...

Podcasts

9 Jan, 2022

Episode 219 — Antitrust Division Indicts Six Aerospace Executives for Criminal Conspiracy in Labor Markets

In a major development, the Antitrust Division returned an indictment against six executives from aerospace engineering firms for an illegal conspiracy to restrict competition in the labor market for aerospace engineers. After warning U.S. businesses, DOJ started bringing criminal cases against businesses that restrict competition for labor through illegal price-fixing or no-poach agreements. The Connecticut criminal case represents a major step in the Justice Department’s...

General

13 Oct, 2020

DOJ Adds Six New Defendants to Price-Fixing Boiler Chicken Conspiracy

The Justice Department announced a major expansion of its ongoing investigation and prosecution of executives and employees in the boiler chicken price-fixing conspiracy. DOJ recently returned a superseding indictment adding six new defendants to the boiler chicken conspiracy indictment, and expanding the scope of the charged conspiracy. (Here for earlier Posting on conspiracy). The new indictment charges ten (10) executives and employees at boiler chicken...