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Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

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

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

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Is the DOJ’s First Criminal Monopolization Case in Decades More Bark Than Bite?

In October, the Department of Justice Antitrust Division announced its first criminal attempted monopolization charges in more than 40 years. In the case, U.S. v. Zito, Nathan Nephi Zito, the owner of a Montana paving...more

Cooley LLP

Business Owner Pleads Guilty to Attempted Monopolization in Violation of Section 2 of Sherman Act

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On October 31, the Antitrust Division of the US Department of Justice (DOJ) delivered on its promise to pursue criminal enforcement of Section 2 of the Sherman Act when it secured a guilty plea from a highway paving...more

The Volkov Law Group

Antitrust Division Secures First Criminal Attempted Monopolization Guilty Plea in Decades

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In yet another indication of the renewed, aggressive antitrust enforcement program, the Justice Department recently announced the first attempted criminal monopolization case in decades — Nathan Nephi Zito, the president of a...more

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No Agreement? No Worries: Justice Department Secures Historic Criminal Attempted Monopolization Conviction

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In yet another signal in support of the notion that “the era of lax enforcement is over, and the new era of vigorous and effective antitrust law enforcement has begun,” on October 31 the Antitrust Division of the Department...more

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