Guilty Pleas, Antitrust Violations, Criminal Conspiracy

U.S. DOJ Antitrust Division Uses Wiretaps to Detect and Prosecute Procurement Collusion

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP on 5/20/2024

The U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Procurement Collusion Strike Force (PCSF) has struck again, this time with the help of a Title III wiretap. ...more

Contech Engineered Pleads Guilty and Agrees to Pay $8.5 Million for Bid-Rigging and Fraud

The Volkov Law Group on 6/16/2021

The Antitrust Division has pushed bid-rigging and price-fixing prosecutions of government contractors. It is long overdue – fraud enforcement has uncovered a number of bid-rigging and price-fixing schemes among government...more

DOJ Catches Big Fish in Generic Pharmaceutical Criminal Antitrust Investigation

The Volkov Law Group on 3/10/2020

The Justice Department’s Antitrust Division announced a major guilty plea with Sandoz, Inc., in its expanding criminal investigation of the generic pharmaceutical industry....more

DOJ's Antitrust Division Convicts Seventh Foreign Executive Following Extradition Proceedings

Morgan Lewis on 1/27/2020

The latest extradition of a foreign executive highlights ongoing efforts by the US Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division to arrest foreign executives abroad in order to face charges in the United States....more

Bumble Bee CEO Convicted of Participating in Price-Fixing Conspiracy

The Volkov Law Group on 12/17/2019

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...more

Japanese Electrolytic Capacitor Manufacturer Settles Criminal Antitrust Case and Pays $60 Million Fine for Illegal Price-Fixing

The Volkov Law Group on 11/1/2018

The Justice Department’s Antitrust Division had a slow year in criminal antitrust cases. There are a number of explanations for the slowdown in criminal cases – the most persuasive is that such a slowdown is part of normal...more