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Justice Department’s Antitrust Division Indicts Claxton Poultry Farms in Expanding Criminal Prosecution of Chicken Producing Industry

Justice Department’s Antitrust Division Indicts Claxton Poultry Farms in Expanding Criminal Prosecution of Chicken Producing Industry

The Justice Department’s criminal prosecution of the chicken producing industry took another significant turn.  Step-by-step, the Antitrust Division is building a large and comprehensive criminal prosecution of a significant cartel. Claxton Poultry Farms refused to plead guilty and cooperate in the Antitrust Division’s sprawling criminal prosecution.  Instead, Claxton Poultry Farms became the second producer to be charged and the first to be indicted rather than...