" The third guy says, "I'm in for price fixing.
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Two other executives at Bumble Bee have pleaded guilty in the price-fixing scheme, and Bumble Bee Foods last year agreed to pay a $25 million fine after pleading guilty to price fixing.
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Hitachi Chemical pleaded guilty to price fixing in April 2016.
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The state of Illinois sued a brick company for price-fixing.
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Madagascar's government was eventually forced to end its price-fixing regime.
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WWL and three other companies have pleaded guilty to price-fixing.
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Accordingly, price fixing is a major concern of government antitrust enforcement.
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It can lead to price-fixing and the stifling of competition.
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The obvious effect of this conspiracy, he argues, is price fixing.
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Bumble Bee is also facing civil lawsuits related to price-fixing.
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The banks fight so hard against debit reform not only because they miss the price-fixing they enjoyed before on debit cards; they also fear there will be more scrutiny of price-fixing fees on credit cards.
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The Sherman Act primarily prevented price-fixing among competitors and market monopolies.
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A price-fixing suit was brought against four of the island's petrol stations.
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In 23, the Supreme Court ruled that constituted an illegal price-fixing conspiracy.
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Then there is bid-rigging, price-fixing and collusion around major reconstruction projects.
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It is unclear if price-fixing took place—usual practice for a cartel.
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In 2013, a federal judge ruled that Apple was guilty of price-fixing.
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This idea prompted howls of "price fixing" from the industry and conservative lawmakers.
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Governments can fall when crop failures, price fixing or inflation send costs up.
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Governments can fall when crop failures, price fixing or inflation sends costs up.
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Aww, the Fresh Milk Products Price-Fixing Class Action Lawsuit made a joke!
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In 2007, Canada confirmed an investigation into price-fixing in the chocolate industry.
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Two of its executives agreed to plead guilty to price-fixing in December.
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The company faced lawsuits, including at least one accusing it of price-fixing.
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FAS has the power to fine firms it finds guilty of price-fixing.
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It was unclear how much the alleged price-fixing may have cost consumers.
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Under Eisenhower, seven electrical equipment executives served 30-day jail sentences for price fixing.
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The company is the fifth to plead guilty to price fixing of electrolytic capacitors.
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Regulators in the United States and Europe have also examined aluminum price-fixing allegations.
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Typical antitrust collusion prosecutions involve price fixing, bid rigging, or market division/allocation schemes.
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In 2000, Diana Brooks, the then CEO of Sotheby's, pleaded guilty to price-fixing.
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Loblaw Companies said Buttigieg had not been involved in the bread price-fixing scheme.
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The unlawful price fixing practices took place during a span ranging from 2011 to 2015.
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If politicians really want to help renters, they should favour concrete-mixing, not price-fixing. ■
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It would outlaw organizations that they view that are engaged in price fixing for oil.
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Bumble Bee paid a $25 million fine last year after pleading guilty to price fixing.
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Forty-six state attorneys general are alleging price fixing of generic drugs by 18 companies.
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Plot points include commodity price fixing, a class-action lawsuit, architectural commissions, adultery and blackmail.
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Most Republicans on the committee voted against it, saying it smacked of government price fixing.
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"This NCAA price-fixing is counter to America's economic principles of free enterprise," he said.
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The industry association that was involved in the price-fixing was the Edelstahl-Vereinigung e.
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Former Bumble Bee chief executive Christopher Lischewski has pleaded not guilty to a price fixing charge.
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That includes price-fixing by the biggest dog in the market, Medicare, which is what's happening.
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The price-fixing episode dates back to late 2009, just ahead of the original iPad launch.
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Prosecutors in 45 American states suspect that price-fixing helped to fatten margins earlier this decade.
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In fact, courts have summarily rejected merchants' price-fixing claims, specifically in 22019's Kendall v.
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Two Bumble Bee executives agreed to plead guilty in December in connection with the price fixing.
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Firms found guilty of price fixing face fines up to 10 percent of their global turnover.
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That adds up quickly to hundreds of dollars per household a year – all through price-fixing.
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Along with its competitors, Bumble Bee was implicated in a price-fixing scheme four years ago.
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The Sherman Act, passed in 1890, prohibits price-fixing conspiracies and other agreements that restrain competition.
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They've challenged their classification as independent contractors, price-fixing among agencies, and the incidental booking clause.
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The Obama administration also charged Apple and publishers in 2012 with price-fixing in e-books.
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The watchdog suspects price-fixing in at least four Indian states, one of the sources said.
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Rubycon and ELNA have also been under investigation for price-fixing for AECs in the United States.
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Russia's antimonopoly regulator said that Apple cooperated with the investigation and has ended its price fixing practices.
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Makan Delrahim, the head of the Justice Department's Antitrust Division, said it would aggressively prosecute price fixing.
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The price fixing occurred in "shelf-stable tuna fish" products from 2011 through 2013, the DOJ said.
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The price fixing occurred in "shelf-stable tuna fish" products from 85033 through 2013, the DOJ said.
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Debit reform also set limits on the card companies price-fixing of the fees that banks charge.
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All five are under investigation for price fixing at Petroleo Brasileiro SA, as Petrobras is formally known.
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The price-fixing affected more than $500 million in Sandoz's generic drug sales, the Justice Department said.
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The Maplevale Farms lawsuit is not the only allegation of price-fixing leveled against the poultry industry.
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Appelbaum said Buttigieg had been on the "front lines" of corporate downsizing and and corporate price fixing.
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Buttigieg said it was "bullshit" that he had been on the front lines of corporate price fixing.
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The national competition authority confirmed that several construction companies had been raided over allegations of price fixing.
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In short, appellants allege a horizontal pricefixing conspiracy, 'perhaps the paradigm of an unreasonable restraint of trade.
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Two former Bumble Bee executives and a former StarKist executive also each pleaded guilty to price-fixing charges.
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The plea agreement is the latest in a long-running international probe into price fixing of auto parts.
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"I think the Fed should be removed from price fixing the cost of short term money," he said.
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Chinese authorities are also investigating price-fixing among American and South Korean manufacturers of memory chips, including Micron.
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Public corruption comes last, from bid-rigging to price-fixing and collusion involving big reconstruction and equipment contracts.
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Meanwhile, the US memory-chip-maker Micron is among three companies under investigation in China for price fixing.
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Katz, who also spent time at Barclays, pleaded guilty to participating in a price-fixing conspiracy in January.
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Sharps Pixley, established in 1778, was one of the original members of London's twice-daily gold price fixing.
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The drug makers have been accused of price-fixing in several patient lawsuits, and several states are investigating.
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He noted that the ACCC had not alleged that any price fixing agreement had been reached or implemented.
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"What you do is you throw these people in jail if they engage in price fixing," he says.
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Chinese antitrust watchdogs launched a price-fixing investigation into Samsung and its two rivals, Reuters reported in 2018.
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Aggressively prosecute drug companies that engage in price fixing and other behaviors that violate the antitrust laws. 5.
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Imagine how much more we would all benefit if every card transaction was free of banks' price-fixing.
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The U.S. filed its first charges in a generic drug price-fixing probe on Wednesday, according to a report.
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China is suing several foreign memory-chip firms for price-fixing and wants to build an indigenous semiconductor capability.
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A senior South Korean government official said Samsung and SK Hynix contend that there has been no price-fixing.
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In another concern for investors, Tyson and other chicken processors face class-action lawsuits accusing them of price fixing.
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In recent years, it opened inquiries into possible price-fixing schemes involving tugboat companies and a large container terminal.
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"To date, we know of no evidence that Mylan participated in price fixing," spokeswoman Nina Devlin said by email.
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Mylan and CEO Heather Bresch are just one example of price gouging, price fixing and collusion among pharmaceutical companies.
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However, the music industry stands as one of the rare exceptions to the rule that price fixing is illegal.
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In 2002, the company paid a $28.5 million fine after one of its subsidiaries was charged with price fixing.
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The cartel office said it fined German retailers Edeka, Netto and Metro for price-fixing of several beer brands.
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Related civil lawsuits alleging tuna price fixing identify Worsham as a senior vice president of marketing for Bumble Bee.
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Investors in separate lawsuits have alleged the processors made misleading statements or failed to disclose information about price fixing.
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Like many other areas of agriculture and farming, price-fixing and limiting supply are common in the chicken industry.
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From free market to price fixing High drug prices have also been a source of anxiety for many Americans.
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Imagine an antitrust challenge to price fixing by foreign manufacturers of goods sold to customers in the United States.
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" Volkswagen noted that it and the other manufacturers "are not charged with any other misconduct such as price fixing.
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Roll forward 183 years and competition regulators take refuge behind legal definitions of types of misconduct, such as price-fixing.
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"The pricing and spread paid by each institution to Dinosaur suggest price fixing and above-market commissions," read the letters.
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The state owned oil company is in the middle of a giant price-fixing, bribery and political kick-back scandal.
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Endo, along with many of its peers, is being investigated by U.S. federal regulators for price-fixing of generic drugs.
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Guilty of market manipulations, price gouging price fixing, abuse anti trust laws, violations Sherman and clayton acts, RICO, fraud, etc.
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A price fixing scandal and increasing public pressure to lower drug costs has taken a toll on the generics industry.
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Why should we add even more burdens in the form of high debit swipe fees by bringing back price-fixing?
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Under this law, insurers can engage in egregious actions like price fixing, bid rigging, and market allocation with total impunity.
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Odebrecht is at the center of a giant price-fixing, bribery and political kickback probe related to Petrobras construction projects.
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Last year, he approved settlements in a major class-action case involving accusations of price-fixing in the airline industry.
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Yet, there has never been any serious debate as to the illegality of one type of restraint: horizontal price-fixing.
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It's easy to forget that the way music is licensed through publishing rights organizations ("PROs") like ASCAP is price fixing.
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Another federal investigation, in the 21950s, led to the company's record $21994 million fine in a global price-fixing conspiracy.
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Senior executives at Archer Daniels Midland and Sotheby's auction house have been sentenced for their roles in price-fixing schemes.
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We need them to protect against the lure of profits that a little price-fixing or market manipulation might bring.
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After all, monopolies in agriculture and healthcare have led to higher pricing, artificial demand, and antitrust strategies like price-fixing.
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A lawsuit filed by patients with diabetes in Massachusetts accusing insulin makers of price fixing is pending in federal court.
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You don't want to turn around and spend all the money you saved on the sticker price fixing extensive issues.
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But reports claiming that the Chinese government is probing chip makers over price-fixing demonstrate that it's not there yet.
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Bernie Sanders: B+ Senator Sanders was effective in his overall message about corruption, taking on drug companies, and price fixing.
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The merged company, for its part, inherits lawsuits about Mylan's alleged price fixing and its role in America's opioid crisis.
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The Commission said in November 2014 it had sent formal charge sheets to several manufacturers it suspected of price fixing.
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Now it's clear that reform has been a success – as you would expect when price-fixing had been the norm.
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BMW is suing two of its suppliers over price fixing on air conditioning components, the German carmaker said on Wednesday.
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Chileans want to see prison sentences for wealthy people who commit tax fraud, price fixing, and other forms of corruption.
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When a group of businesses agree to charge the same price for a good or service, this is price-fixing.
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The troubled brand, owned by London-based Lion Capital, was embroiled in a price-fixing scheme that drained its resources.
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Warren and Schakowsky's legislation is a direct response to an investigation into an alleged price-fixing scheme among pharmaceutical companies.
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In June, the U.S. government revealed it had opened a criminal probe into alleged poultry price-fixing, which producers have denied.
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Scandals over banks' bad behaviour, in areas such as price-fixing, money laundering and mis-selling continue to come to light.
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Although MAN reported the price-fixing to escape punishment, VW stablemate Scania remains under investigation after failing to reach a settlement.
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The three price-fixing pharmacy chains control 90% of the country's drugstore business; the chicken cheats sell 93% of the poultry.
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State media have previously also gone after firms including British drug giant GlaxoSmithKline for price-fixing, bribery and poor quality products.
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Its access to capital markets has been sharply reduced since late 2014 by a price-fixing, bribery and political kickback scandal.
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The average sentence in American price-fixing cases has risen from eight months in the 1990s to more than two years.
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In a statement, Yamaha Indonesia denied it had conducted price-fixing and said it reserved the right to file an appeal.
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The tuna fish price-fixing scheme is part of a larger seafood antitrust investigation undertaken by the Justice Department and FBI.
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The suit, filed in December, alleges that Uber chief executive Travis Kalanick engaged in a price-fixing scheme with Uber drivers.
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The Justice Department and antitrust enforcers around the world have had a long-running investigation into price-fixing of auto parts.
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You've got monopolies, oligopolies, cartels, government-run markets, price-fixing — all the dysfunctional behaviors that lead to rapid increase in prices.
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Outside of specific factual contexts — such as price fixing in antitrust law — the word "collusion" has no legal meaning or significance.
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"In creating Uber, Kalanick organized price-fixing among independent drivers who should be competing with one another on price," he said.
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" A spokeswoman for Mylan offered a similar statement, saying the company knew of "no evidence that Mylan participated in price-fixing.
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Many of Trumps fellow Republicans are not keen on letting the government negotiate over prices, saying it amounts to price fixing.
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But such prosecutions are rare, and are reserved for CEOs engaged directly in an activity that limits competition, like price-fixing.
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As The Verge reports, there was no collusion between the four companies, but each company engaged in the same price fixing practices.
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"Steve Berman, an attorney representing the plaintiffs, told USA Today that the program to slaughter cows was a "classic price-fixing scheme.
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She also put an end to hesitation in Brussels by launching a price fixing case against Russian gas giant Gazprom last year.
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Baker Botts has represented Exxon on cases involving allegations of natural-gas price fixing, issues related to gas pipeline rates and others.
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In February, Dow Chemical decided to settle a class action lawsuit and pay out $835 million to settle a price-fixing case.
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VW's MAN trucks division was spared any fines last year after disclosing price fixing with Daimler and other truckmakers prior to 2011.
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Sanderson Farms Inc and Perdue Farms were also accused of price-fixing by customers, including farms, food distributors, retailers and ordinary consumers.
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In 1992, for instance, the Justice Department sued eight major airlines for running a price-fixing scheme through their computerized reservation system.
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Guilty of market manipulations, price gouging price fixing, abuse anti trust laws, violations Sherman and clayton acts, loan sharks, RICO, fraud, etc.
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The FTC is also supposed to prevent coordination on the part of multiple firms to limit competition, such as price-fixing agreements.
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The bottom line is that the banking giants like Wells Fargo want price-fixing and want to be paid to block competition.
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Antitrust laws, for example, give small companies a chance to compete by addressing price discrimination, price fixing and other unfair business practices.
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Yet with oil – the commodity that most shapes the health of the global economy – we've resigned ourselves to state-supported price-fixing.
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In May, Christopher Lischewski, the former CEO of Bumble Bee, was indicted by a grand jury on one count of price fixing.
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Just last year, a probe of alleged price-fixing involving at least 220006 companies and hundreds of generic remedies was publicly exposed.
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Lawyers say such a move is rare, and reserved for CEOs engaged directly in an activity that limits competition, like price fixing.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's Federal Anti-Monopoly Service said on Monday it had opened a case into price-fixing allegations concerning Apple iPhones.
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But industry players, fair trade campaigners and even fellow producer countries are divided over whether a price fixing strategy is the answer.
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And federal prosecutors have been investigating what they described as wide-ranging price-fixing schemes by the major generic manufacturers, including Mylan.
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These are antitrust powerhouses that have won many billions of dollars in settlements with an array of price-fixing or monopolist defendants.
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This International Pricing Index model was quickly panned by the pharmaceutical industry, as well as many conservatives, who call it price fixing.
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The stocks in makers of generic drugs tumbled on reports that a federal inquiry into price-fixing was wider than previously believed.
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Last year, a federal grand jury indicted Christopher Lischewski, then the company's CEO, in connection with a packaged seafood price-fixing scam.
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It is found in one place in the federal code, in the area of antitrust law, concerning practices such as price-fixing.
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Google's also not the only U.S. company in Russian cross-hairs: Earlier this week, authorities opened a price-fixing case against Apple.
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Philips, for example, engaged in retail price fixing in France on a number of its items, from kitchen supplies to home theater equipment.
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Authorities say StarKist has agreed to plead guilty to price fixing as part of a broad collusion investigation of the canned tuna industry.
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Today, Apple hit back against a Supreme Court decision in an antitrust case that accused it of price-fixing in the App Store.
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A price-fixing, bribery and political kickback scandal that exploded in late 2014 has reduced Petrobras' ability to raise capital in financial markets.
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Economists scoff at the official line, pointing instead at strict currency controls and price fixing that hurt imports and reduce incentives for production.
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The company ran the price-fixing operation from as early as May 2008 to as late as April 2016, according to the department.
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Previous inquiries by the U.S. Justice Department had looked into price fixing within the shipping industry, which has resulted indictments of various executives.
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Hence, by extension, most Americans will be forced to be in collusion with a cartel and at times benefit from its price fixing.
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At Amcor he had a track record of smart acquisitions and brought cultural transformation to a company hit by a price-fixing scandal.
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And continued concern over drug pricing, a rare area of bipartisan agreement in recent years, could lead to more criminal price-fixing charges.
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The fine was for price-fixing and operating a secretive system aimed at delaying the installation of pollution-curbing exhaust pipes and engines.
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The Nopec legislation being discussed by U.S. lawmakers could make it possible to sue Saudi Arabia and other OPEC members for price fixing.
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Mr. Cohen won more than $1 billion for hundreds of small businesses that accused paper companies and corrugated box manufacturers of price fixing.
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"The advancement of technological means for the orchestration of large-scale price-fixing conspiracies need not leave antitrust law behind," the judge wrote.
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They did rectify macroeconomic imbalances, but they also overcompensated with privatizations and deregulation, which left a legacy of price-fixing and financial frailty.
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Once the world's largest maker of flexible solar panels, ECD was forced into bankruptcy as a result of this illegal price-fixing scheme.
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The trader, Jason Katz, pleaded guilty to the charge, as the Justice Department continued its global investigation into price fixing of currency markets.
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The case was initially assigned to U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff, who dismissed Kalanick's denial of price-fixing and moved the case forward.
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Socony Vacuum Oil, the seminal ruling on the per se illegality of horizontal price-fixing schemes; and 1982's Blue Shield of Virginia v.
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Some of the largest consumer electronics manufacturers are being hit with big fines today as a result of online retail price fixing in Europe.
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Cement stocks declined after the country's competition watchdog imposed a fine of 63.2 billion rupees ($943.57 million) on 10 cement companies for price fixing.
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Separately, Barra declined to discuss a statement by a Chinese government official that a U.S. automaker could be subject to penalties for price-fixing.
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In October, Reuters reported here a lawsuit on the price-fixing case accused 18 companies, including Mylan and Teva Pharmaceutical, and named 15 medicines.
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Argos said in a separate statement it "rejected" the fine and that it too had turned over evidence that there was no price-fixing.
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In 2016, it fined a GM local joint venture $29 million and a local Medtronic unit $17.2 million for committing separate price fixing violations.
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Smith said it was an excellent time for a CEO change and that the ongoing price-fixing litigation had no bearing on his departure.
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UTC is one of some two dozen engineering companies accused of price fixing and overcharging state-run oil firm Petroleo Brasileiro SA for work.
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Citing a source, the report said that China was probing price-fixing allegations as DRAM — a form of data storage — prices had risen sharply.
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Congress should be moving on to clean up the credit-card market next, not looking to go backwards to the days of price-fixing.
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MOSCOW, Aug 8 (Reuters) - Russia's Federal Anti-Monopoly Service said on Monday it had opened a case into price fixing allegations concerning Apple iPhones.
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So why are some members of Congress talking about returning to the bad old days of price-fixing fees, squashing competitors and higher prices?
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The local companies being investigated for bribes related to the railway contracts are also accused of price-fixing and corruption in the Petrobras scandal.
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The long-running probe into price fixing in the air cargo industry led to charges against 22 airlines and 21 executives, the department said.
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The long-running probe into price fixing in the air cargo industry led to charges against 22 airlines and 21 executives, the department said.
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The inter-bank lending rate that has been at the heart of a price-fixing scandal is to be killed off within 4 years.
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If they try to collectively bargain over their wages, they may run afoul of antitrust laws that prohibit price-fixing among small, independent businesses.
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Congress can clarify through legislation or otherwise specify that antitrust laws are intended to cover price-fixing schemes in violation of international trade laws.
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Banks also saw debit-card reform as a threat hanging over credit cards, which are still an unfair market completely subject to price-fixing.
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Motherboard previously obtained a Memorandum of Understanding between City of London Police and the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), which investigates price-fixing cartels.
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The prosecutors' office said on Friday that it was now investigating 220 companies or individuals on suspicion of price-fixing in the sector since 2006.
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The U.S. government began investigating price fixing of canned tuna between StarKist, Bumble Bee Foods and Chicken of the Sea more than two years ago.
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Economic history has taught repeatedly that government price fixing, especially of basic commodities, such as oil and credit, creates distortions with long-term, painful consequences.
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And the PBMs could act as "conduits" for gathering sensitive information about health insurer rivals, which could lead to "price fixing" or "collusion," AAI said.
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A top executive at Mylan is the target of a multi-state investigation into price fixing by generic drug manufacturers, state attorneys general said Tuesday.
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In 2017, the company pleaded guilty for price-fixing and was fined $25 million for forming a cartel with Chicken of the Sea and Starkist.
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In 2017, the company pleaded guilty for price fixing and was fined $25 million for forming a cartel with Chicken of the Sea and StarKist.
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Last year, Bumble Bee Foods pleaded guilty to the same felony price-fixing charge as StarKist did on Thursday, and paid a $25 million fine.
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European shares slumped, weighed down by weaker drugmakers after two U.S. lawmakers called on federal antitrust regulators to open an investigation into possible price fixing.
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Prosecutors said the charges, filed in federal court in Philadelphia, are part of a broad antitrust investigation into price fixing in the generic drug industry.
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The government's official interest rate price-fixing committee, otherwise known as the Federal Reserve, recently raised its target federal funds rate by 6900 percentage points.
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In November, federal prosecutors launched a new criminal investigation into McKesson's opioid work; the company is currently facing an investor lawsuit regarding drug price-fixing.
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Taubman was imprisoned in 18473 for running a price-fixing scheme with Sotheby's competitor, Christie's, that cheated buyers and sellers out of some $21847 million.
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The arrests expands the giant, two-year-old Operation Car Wash probe of price-fixing, bribery and political kickbacks at state-led oil company Petrobras.
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In 2015, Spencer Meyer, a Connecticut Uber rider, sued Uber co-founder and then-CEO Travis Kalanick, alleging that Uber was engaging in price-fixing.
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The discovery of price-fixing, bribery and political kick-backs at Petrobras led it to write off $17 billion of over-valued assets in 2015.
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The arbitration case involved price-fixing claims lodged by Plano, Texas-based dental equipment distributor Archer and White Sales Inc against other manufacturers and distributors.
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In 1960, the Department of Justice indicted executives from several companies for involvement in a huge price-fixing scheme across much of the electrical industry.
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Last March, the Supreme Court declined to hear a long-running case about Apple price-fixing e-books, making an earlier $400 million settlement final.
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Finally, GE's top executive in Latin America was jailed in Brazil after prosecutors said he was involved in a price-fixing scheme for medical equipment.
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Counsel Georg Thoma is responsible for coordinating responses by managers to regulators investigating the bank's role in interest rate-rigging and precious metals price-fixing scandals.
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While Petrobras has put losses from the price-fixing scheme at about $2.5 billion, Lieberman and his clients allege liabilities to investors are many times that.
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They also accused the plaintiffs of improperly piggybacking off since-abandoned findings by the Korea Fair Trade Commission of a price-fixing conspiracy in South Korea.
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It was also involved in an ebook price-fixing antitrust case several years ago, ultimately refunding customers who were found to have over-paid for books.
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Amazon's Nate Sutton is a veteran of the Justice Department's price-fixing case against Apple for allegedly conspiring with publishers to raise the price of ebooks.
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Shares of Tyson and two other chicken producers fell on Tuesday after news that the U.S. Department of Justice is looking into potential price-fixing accusations.
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"We have not entered an agreement on price fixing with other manufacturers, nor have we delayed the introduction of new more efficient engines," the company said.
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Two years later, the company coughed up $450 million over price-fixing after it was found to have colluded with publishers on the cost of ebooks.
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Beijing is investigating price-fixing allegations as DRAM prices have risen sharply, the first such probe by China, said a source with knowledge of the matter.
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The Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal on Apple's ebooks price-fixing case, locking the company in to a $450 million settlement, Reuters reports.
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Bloomberg News recently reported that the company was also facing probes into price-fixing and its involvement in the potential theft of trade secrets from Alphabet.
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A single price-fixing scandal by the world's largest banks—fixing the global interest rates known as LIBOR—involved more than $232 trillion in financial instruments.
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Firms that expose price-fixing rings can expect leniency: in the truck case, MAN was the first to step forward and may avoid a fine altogether.
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Dozens of executives and politicians have been jailed in the two-year probe over price-fixing and corruption at state-run firms, especially oil producer Petrobras.
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The agencies generally have a practice of meeting to decide who will investigate which matter, but the FTC cannot investigate certain matters, for example price-fixing.
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This is the seventh price-fixing case involving global auto component makers probed by South Korea and comes amid a worldwide crackdown on car part cartels.
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The company, which has declined further comment on the SEC action, said at the time it believed the subpoena was related to allegations of price fixing.
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Last Friday, Dow Chemical agreed to settle a class-action price-fixing case for $835 million rather than take its chances in a Scalia-less court.
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"We have been investigating these allegations thoroughly and have found no evidence of price fixing on the part of Mylan or its employees," the company said.
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It said the deal could lead to price-fixing, giving the combined entity extra market power for scrap in Brazil's southeastern region, the nation's most industrious.
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Nenkova also said that the commission has launched analyses of the banking and the pharmaceutical sectors to check if there are reasons for price-fixing investigations.
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The Justice Department can also bring criminal antitrust cases, but those prosecutions usually relate to cartels and price-fixing, making charges against big technology firms unlikely.
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Exane BNP Paribas automotive analyst Stuart Pearson said little was known about the allegations, and that no signs had emerged about price fixing towards the consumer.
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There is trouble in the world of prescription drugs, too: Six pharmaceutical companies, including the industry giants Teva and Mylan, are facing charges of price-fixing.
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The agencies generally have a practice of meeting to decide who will investigate which matter but the FTC cannot probe certain matters, for example price-fixing.
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STUTTGART, Germany, Oct 25 (Reuters) - Volkswagen has no information that price fixing was part of the alleged collusion between German carmakers, chief executive Matthias Mueller said.
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Based on our discussion with a legal expert, we estimate TEVA's opioid liability exposure at $500- $700M and believe its price-fixing exposure could be substantially higher.
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The same month it proclaimed itself the winner in the app battle, it was found guilty of conspiring with publishers in an e-book price-fixing scheme.
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The Justice Department said in June it launched a criminal probe related to price-fixing allegations against Tyson and other poultry processors, which the companies have denied.
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Petrobras, Shell's principal partner in the country, is in serious financial and legal difficulty after the price drop and the massive price-fixing, bribery and kickback scandal.
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"Teva and its co-conspirators embarked on one of the most egregious and damaging price-fixing conspiracies in the history of the United States," the lawsuit said.
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Although many Europeans assume such problems are confined to eastern countries, some 22% of the price-fixing cartels discovered between 215 and 25 were in western Europe.
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The discovery of price-fixing, bribery and political kick-backs at the company also led Petrobras to write off $17 billion of over-valued assets in 2015.
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A whistleblowing hotline including an email address, phone number, and encrypted web form will allow individuals to anonymously report price-fixing cartels and other anti-competitive practices.
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But the self-service tool is potentially worrisome, as it removes a layer of oversight that could lead to price-fixing and brands policing out legitimate resellers.
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They claim there's no proof merchants have passed savings on to consumers– and, therefore, Congress should let banks rip-off consumers by price-fixing and blocking competition.
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Heritage, part of India's Emcure Pharmaceuticals, referred back to its Wednesday comment, which blamed the former executives for the price-fixing, and said they had been terminated.
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Executives of companies caught bid-rigging can face prison time and the companies themselves can face fines that are triple the gains made in the price fixing.
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Dozens of engineering firms are being investigated for price-fixing contracts and overcharging state-run oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA to gain funds used to bribe politicians.
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The city said the defendants engaged in the scheme from 2009 to 2014, in violation of the Sherman Act, a federal antitrust law that prohibits price fixing.
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The proposal viewed by POLITICO would extend the statute of limitations on price-fixing and bid-rigging cases for at least six months because of the pandemic.
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In general, most companies and individuals involved in price-fixing schemes agree to plead guilty; at the federal level, 90 percent of cases end with plea bargains.
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PE firms have muscled into the money-maker to wring out those that pay for it, even as allegations of collusion and price-fixing have become rampant.
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Azar declined to answer when Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren asked him whether drug company chief executives should be held personally accountable for actions such as price fixing.
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Republicans were particularly concerned with a requirement that drug companies pay rebates to Medicare if they raised prices faster than inflation, which some called government price-fixing.
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INDIA In November 2018, the country ruled that ride-sharing firms Uber and Ola did not break price-fixing rules following a complaint about their pricing strategy.
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WASHINGTON, Dec 3 (Reuters) - The former chief executive of Bumble Bee Foods LLC, Chris Lischewski, was found guilty of price-fixing on Tuesday, a court filing showed.
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He made his name defending corporations in price-fixing cases, transforming himself into an impeccably tailored oenophile whose elegant appearance belied his attack-dog style in court.
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Until the 1990s, commercial garbage collection in the city was a similar cesspool, with the Mafia dominating the industry through extortion, price fixing and threats of violence.
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Tyson Foods Inc and Pilgrims Pride Corp dipped 1.1% and 7.023%, respectively, after the U.S. Department of Justice opened a criminal probe over possible poultry price fixing.
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Sanofi, whose shares were also slightly lower, Novo Nordisk and Lilly were named in a proposed lawsuit by a group of patients for alleged price-fixing, Reuters reported.
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The law firm bringing the case, Seattle-based Hagens Berman , contends the alleged price-fixing forced consumers to pay high prices for bacon, ham and other pork products.
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The discovery of price-fixing, bribery and political kick-backs at the company also led to Petrobras to write off $17 billion of over-valued assets in 2015.
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When it ran into financial trouble in 1983, it was bought for $125 million by Alfred Taubman, who ended up being jailed for price-fixing with rival Christie's.
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Many companies have also faced regulatory and legal uncertainty, analysts said, including lawsuits related to the U.S. opioid abuse epidemic and to alleged price-fixing for generic drugs.
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The indictments arose from a long-running international antitrust investigation of price fixing in the auto parts industry that has ensnared more than 40 companies and 60 people.
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The Justice Department said in June it had launched a criminal probe related to price-fixing allegations against Tyson and other poultry processors, which the companies have denied.
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It also comes as China investigates Micron and its South Korean rivals over price fixing allegations, amid a surge in prices of dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chips.
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For the carpentry contract, Trump settled on a Genovese family–controlled enterprise that was central to another mob price-fixing racket, as found by a subsequent federal probe.
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AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The Dutch competition watchdog said on Wednesday it was investigating a possible illegal, price-fixing cartel by fuel companies in ports in the Netherlands and Belgium.
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Its undertow is felt in an increase in the enforcement of laws relating to false claims, foreign corrupt practices, public safety, price-fixing, market allocation and the like.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Japanese electronics part maker agreed to pay $28.5 million for its role in a price-fixing scheme, the U.S. Department of Justice said on Monday.
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Earlier this year, 44 U.S. states filed a complaint in federal court alleging drug price fixing by the three pharmaceutical companies and other drugmakers, according to the statement.
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JAKARTA, Feb 20 (Reuters) - Indonesia's anti-monopoly agency said on Monday that two companies that make and distribute Yamaha and Honda motorbikes there were guilty of price-fixing.
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But Warren's office said the generic drug market is "broken" and lacks competition, pointing to an investigation into a massive price-fixing scheme in the generic drug market.
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Africa's most industrialised economy has over the years cracked down on price-fixing cartels in the construction sector and recently investigated steel, auto component and glass products industries.
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Apple's iBooks conduct was judged illegal as price fixing, a verdict upheld on appeal, because it tried (with success) to increase retail prices to consumers for e-books.
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In 2000, he was named to succeed the chairman of Sotheby's, who resigned after the auction house was accused of price-fixing with its fellow auction house Christie's.
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The state attorneys' investigation into drug price fixing found evidence of broad, well-coordinated schemes on a number of generic drugs and is ongoing, according to the complaint.
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They argued in a joint status report filed Friday that the DOJ settlements with some of the defendants only confirm the weakness of the plaintiffs' price-fixing allegations.
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In other parts of the market, share prices of generic drug makers plunged after news reports that the Justice Department was investigating possible price-fixing among the companies.
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U.S. laws prohibit companies from colluding to fix prices, and a bipartisan group of U.S. Congress members recently revived a push to punish OPEC for alleged price-fixing.
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No other student or citizen is subject to such harmful economic price-fixing, especially one imposed by a repeat antitrust violator that does not have an antitrust exemption.
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ChemChina also said the Chinese government does not interfere with its operations and has not directed ChemChina or any of its affiliates to engage in price fixing with competitors.
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JERUSALEM — Nine people have been arrested in connection with a suspected price-fixing scheme for high school trips to former Nazi camps in Poland, the Israeli police said Tuesday.
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WASHINGTON, Feb 4 (Reuters) - A former sales and marketing executive of Taro Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd, Ara Aprahamian, has been indicted for price-fixing and bid-rigging, among other charges.
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Tuesday's actions were the latest in the "Operation Car Wash" probe in which 205 people have been accused and 105 convicted of crimes ranging from price-fixing to kickbacks.
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Sanderson Farms, along with 13 other poultry producers and affiliated companies, has been hit with a lawsuit alleging price fixing, it said in a Tuesday filing to the SEC.
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The DOJ, meanwhile, has a history with Apple, finding the company engaged in ebook price fixing—a decision that cost the Tim Cook-led empire a cool $450 million.
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"DStv Media Sales (Pty) Ltd has admitted to price fixing and the fixing of trading conditions in contravention of South Africa's Competition Act," the commission said in a statement.
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In February the watchdog opened an inquiry covering seven fuel retailers over possible price-fixing and into Lukoil's Bulgarian oil refinery for possible abuse of its dominant market position.
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The investigation was part of "Operation Car Wash", the spokesman said, launched two years ago to tackle price-fixing, bribery and political kickbacks at state-run oil company Petrobras.
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) - The German cartel office on Monday fined several retailers including Metro a total of 90.5 million euros ($103 million) for price-fixing in beer, sweets and coffee.
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Under U.S. law, officers of companies engaged in price fixing go to jail, but executives of OPEC members are doing so in broad daylight every few months in Vienna.
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The Department of Justice (DOJ) is cracking down on one of the largest canned tuna companies in the U.S. over what it says was a major price-fixing scheme.
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A giant price-fixing, bribery and political kick-back scandal, which continues to generate arrests in Brazil and abroad, led to record Petrobras losses and write-downs in 2014.
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But Warren's office said the generic drug market is "broken" and lacks competition, pointing to an investigation into a massive price-fixing scheme in the generic drug market. Rep.
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The Justice Department is asking Congress to let it extend deadlines on merger reviews and price-fixing prosecutions because of the coronavirus pandemic, according to documents viewed by POLITICO.
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The spike in prices of doxycycline and other generic drugs led to a congressional investigation as well as state and federal inquiries into price-fixing that are still underway.
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The price-fixing activities for doxycycline occurred between April 2013 and at least December 2015, prosecutors said, while the activities for glyburide, the diabetes drug, began in April 2014.
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The Cartel Office was alerted to the price-fixing by Austrian steelmaker Voestalpine, which said in a separate statement that it had discovered the violations during routine internal audits.
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Tyson Foods fell 3.2 percent to $63.34 after the nation's biggest chicken processor disclosed it had received a subpoena from U.S. authorities that was likely linked to price fixing.
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Then he went into private practice, working on matters like DirecTV's sale to AT&T and the defense of the poultry producer Pilgrim's Pride in a price-fixing lawsuit.
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Al Taubman was sentenced in 2001 to a year in prison after his conviction in a price-fixing scheme that swindled more than $100 million from auction house customers.
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Trustbusters could start by testing price-bots in a "collusion incubator" to see how market conditions might be tweaked to make a price-fixing deal less likely or less stable.
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No one is going to shed tears for Samsung, Micron, or Hynix if the companies have to empty some change from their pockets to pay for the alleged price fixing.
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SAN FRANCISCO – U.S. prosecutors filed a criminal charge Wednesday against the CEO of Bumble Bee Foods as part of an ongoing investigation into price fixing in the packaged seafood industry.
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In February, the watchdog began investigating the four companies, as well as the offices of OMV, Nis Petrol, controlled by Russia's Gazprom Neft and Bulgarian Petrol over possible price fixing.
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In second place is the less exciting, but still hefty $1.67 billion (1.35 billion euros) fine levied against car glass producers in 2008 over illegal market sharing and price fixing.
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Two of its executives agreed to plead guilty to price-fixing in December 2016, following an investigation by the Justice Department's Anti-Trust Division and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
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On Thursday, federal prosecutors announced that StarKist Co. had agreed to plead guilty to felony price fixing as part of an investigation into alleged collusion within the canned tuna industry.
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WASHINGTON, July 29 (Reuters) - A Japanese electronics part maker agreed to pay $28.5 million for its role in a price-fixing scheme, the U.S. Department of Justice said on Monday.
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The bottom line is this amendment introduced price-fixing to a formerly functional and competitive marketplace and failed to keep the dubious promises made to sell it—ultimately hurting customers.
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Buried in the Financial CHOICE Act was language that would repeal a five-year-old Federal Reserve limit on price fixing that has cut debit card swipe fees in half.
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Kenneth Worsham agreed to plead guilty to one count of felony price fixing between 2011 and 2013 but did not identify the company he works for, the Justice Department said.
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A lawsuit alleging price-fixing of generic drugs is about to be expanded to include nearly every state in the country, and one company — Mylan — is already feeling the heat.
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But if a driver is an independent contractor (corporation) using the service and you are a customer using the service, then Uber is setting the cost of services: price-fixing.
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Germany's financial regulator will take no further action against Deutsche Bank over alleged interest rate rigging and precious metals price fixing, the country's largest lender said on Thursday.
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There are also fears that a Chinese price-fixing probe into chipmakers including Samsung could limit the upside for DRAM prices, as China is the largest importer of memory products.
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DOJ said the charges are the first to come from a wide-ranging investigation into price fixing, bid rigging and other anticompetitive actions in the oil and natural gas industry.
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Though its drugs are generally cheap, some have also risen sharply in price, and prosecutors have been investigating claims of price-fixing by some of the largest players, including Mylan.
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" A spokeswoman for Mylan said in a statement that the company is cooperating with the investigation and "to date, we know of no evidence that Mylan participated in price-fixing.
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Proving that the drugmakers conspired to divide up their markets could be difficult, according to experts I spoke with; price fixing might be a little easier lift for the plaintiffs.
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The defense of the Chinese currency — through capital controls, price fixing and other measures — shows just how weak China's economy is internally, despite what Chinese officials proclaim to the external world.
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The department said a total of 47 companies and 65 people have pleaded guilty or been charged with price fixing of auto parts during its long-running probe of the industry.
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Apple Books has the issue of Amazon and its massive Kindle library as competition, which Apple infamously tried to solve in a price fixing scandal that cost the company $8.473 million.
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Last year, we knew the multi-state lawsuit against generic drug manufacturers — alleging anticompetitive behavior like price-fixing and squashing generic competitors — involved at least a dozen companies and 15 drugs.
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In an interview on "Squawk Box, " Baron said that back in 1999, his firm was suffering from a huge investment loss in Sotheby's, which was implicated in a price-fixing scandal.
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This came after Germany's cartel office said six car manufacturers and suppliers had their offices searched on June 23, as part of an investigation into steel price fixing; according to Reuters.
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But a top AMA leader made it clear to a roomful of doctors Wednesday that the group will never accept "price-fixing" — and suggested that's largely because of economic self-interest.
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They were targeted "because they are perceived as market leaders who engage in anti-competitive price fixing, creating an oligopoly," said Rachid Aourraz, economist at the Moroccan Institute for Policy Analysis.
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Four truck makers were fined a record 2.9 billion euros by EU regulators in July for price fixing and passing on to customers the costs of complying with stricter emission rules.
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"I believe the NCAA is a classic price fixing cartel and has long engaged in unlawful behavior under the antitrust laws," Jeffrey Kessler, a lead lawyer for the athletes, told Axios.
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Clearly, wrote Renata Hesse, an antitrust section chief at the department, "any agreement among Alliance members to restrict such free service is likely a form of price fixing" and thus illegal.
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Merchants say these fees are too high, a result of price-fixing among credit card networks like Visa and MasterCard, which act as electronic information highways between merchants and the banks.
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In 2001, two boys at Winchester College hacked their school's private email system and exposed a price-fixing scheme aimed at ensuring that fees rose well above inflation across the sector.
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Civil liberties be damned: Mayor Fiorello La Guardia invoked his authority as a magistrate to ban the sale of artichokes, in a fruitless effort to bust organized crime's price-fixing monopoly.
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Drug pricing has become a political lightning rod, drawing the attention of Trump and the U.S. Department of Justice, which on Wednesday filed price-fixing charges against two former pharmaceutical executives.
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The former CEO of Bumble Bee Tuna is expected to go to trial in November for his alleged role in a price-fixing scheme with Chicken of the Sea and StarKist.
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That encourages competition by letting banks charge whatever they want as long as they set their own prices rather than participate in the price-fixing led by the credit card giants.
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The Justice Department said this was the first case resulting from a federal antitrust investigation into price-fixing, bid-rigging and other anticompetitive conduct in the oil and natural gas industry.
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The department said this was the first case resulting from a continuing federal antitrust investigation into price fixing, bid rigging and other anticompetitive conduct in the oil and natural gas industry.
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The announcement by the commission, the European Union's executive arm, comes nearly a year after officials searched the German automakers' offices as part of an initial inquiry into possible price fixing.
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Teva Pharmaceutical Industries' chief financial officer on Sunday reiterated that the company has done nothing wrong in the wake of a price-fixing lawsuit filed by 44 U.S. states.
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The Justice Department has intervened in a class-action lawsuit that accuses huge chicken producers, including Tyson Foods and Pilgrim's Pride, of price-fixing, David Yaffe-Bellany of the NYT reports.
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African competition watchdog charged Takata Corp with price fixing on Wednesday, another blow to the Japanese auto safety products maker in the throes of a massive airbag scandal.
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Durbin set a limit for large banks that continue to operate under price fixing, capping the fee at just under 85033 cents, or about half the level seen in the past.
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JOHANNESBURG, March 1 (Reuters) - South Africa's competition watchdog recommended a fine equivalent to 10 percent of Unilever's local turnover for price fixing of edible oils and margarine, it said on Wednesday.
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The appeals court held Monday that price-fixing collusion among competitors is a violation of antitrust law, even if it takes place in the context of an ostensibly cooperative rate-setting process.
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ZURICH, Dec 20 (Reuters) - Credit Suisse is continuing to cooperate with the European Commission's investigation into alleged price fixing on the trading of dollar-denominated bonds, the Swiss bank said on Thursday.
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The price-fixing conspiracy ran from September 1997 to 2014, and Nichicon participated from about 2001 to 2011, the Justice Department said in its complaint, filed in federal court in San Francisco.
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Thankfully, the US Justice Department appears to be investigating Mylan and according to some reports might finally bring charges this year against the company for a host of allegations, including price fixing.
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New York (CNN Business)The US government, as part of an investigation into the chicken industry, is trying to intervene in a price-fixing lawsuit brought against the country's biggest poultry producers.
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"We have noticed the price surge and will pay more attention to future problems that may be caused by 'price fixing' in the sector," the official Xu Xinyu was quoted as saying.
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It's an issue that oddly divides the Trump administration from traditional conservative groups and some Republicans, who have labeled the benchmarking approach as "price-fixing" by the government and vigorously oppose it.
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Pivotal lowered its rating on Tyson Foods to sell from buy, predicting the attention from a class-action lawsuit filed against the chicken industry over alleged price-fixing will hurt future profits.
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Government officials had already promised to crack down on anti-competitive practices after a price-fixing scheme in the market for toilet paper, tissues and other paper products was uncovered in October.
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JOHANNESBURG, May 25 (Reuters) - South Africa's Naspers' pay-television subsidiary has agreed to pay an accumulative fine of 180 million rand ($13.97 million) for price fixing, the competition commission said on Thursday.
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The crucial claim was that the banks engaged in a horizontal price-fixing conspiracy to artificially affect Libor, which the courts have found to be a per se violation of the law.
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And what could be more extreme than defending your price-fixing racketeering as pro-school, all while making it more difficult for some overlooked athletes to play their way into tuition payments?
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"We've uncovered through emails, text messages and telephone patterns, plus cooperating witnesses, a very compelling case of systematic and pervasive price fixing within the industry," Jepson said in a "Power Lunch" interview.
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"The Anti-Monopoly Service sees signs of price fixing violations in the Russian Federation at Apple iPhone resellers, which resulted in the same prices for these smartphones," it said in a statement.
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The growing docket of securities fraud lawsuits follow probes that uncovered a giant price-fixing, bribery and political kick-back scandal at state-led oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA in early 2014.
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Price-fixing cases have a five-year statute of limitations, so prosecutors are pushing against the clock on conduct that took place in 2015, said Lisa Phelan, a partner at Morrison & Foerster.
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Second, returning to this "technology platform" position could be dangerous for Uber as it exposes them to a legal argument accusing them of price-fixing, as laid out by Jalopnik's Aaron Gordon.
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The result has been a rise in the average cost of some Apple products sold on Amazon, which is a potential price-fixing violation that could result in antitrust action, experts say.
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Chinese companies, in connection with the Chinese government, have successfully used federal courts to hide possible evidence of an illegal price fixing conspiracy that has resulted in serious harm to American manufacturers.
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The bill would authorize the Justice Department to sue groups like OPEC that are deemed cartels for price fixing and antitrust violations, stripping countries of sovereign immunity protections currently built into U.S. law.
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The FCC's move in 2015 actually made room for the FTC to step in when problems were happening on the business side of the ISP — for example, price-fixing at a national level.
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The price fixing started in mid-1999 and ran until mid-2011, with the affected products sold to Ford Motor Co, General Motors LLC, Honda Motor Co Ltd and others, the department said.
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In its letter to Grassley, ChemChina said the Chinese government does not interfere with ChemChina's operations and has not directed ChemChina or any of its affiliates to engage in price-fixing with competitors.
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Cencosud's shares already closed down 2.28 percent on Wednesday after the regulator accused the supermarket of the price-fixing scheme, saying it would seek to fine each of the supermarkets around $23 million.
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At the end of 2015, Uber hired a CIA-linked firm called Ergo to look into Spencer Meyer, a plaintiff who was suing the company and its CEO Travis Kalanick for price-fixing.
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The search at Fox Networks Group was one of several the European Commission said it had conducted across Europe as part of an investigation into potential violations of rules prohibiting price-fixing cartels.
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"Destruction of the corporation would probably have been a fair outcome in this case," Steeh said, adding he had been involved in a separate case in which Takata had admitted to price fixing.
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Last week, a former trader at Barclays and BNP Paribas SA , Jason Katz, pleaded guilty to participating in a price-fixing conspiracy, becoming the first person to admit criminal wrongdoing in the probe.
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At least four antitrust lawsuits have been filed in Philadelphia federal court against a group of drugmakers including Allergan PLC and Mylan Pharmaceuticals over alleged price-fixing of two widely used generic drugs.
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Conflict-of-interest issues among groups of plaintiffs is "not uncommon" for these types of cases, according to Scott Wagner, a partner at Bilzin Sumberg who focuses on antitrust and price-fixing issues.
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The office, which has been investigating the German beer market since 2010, also fined German retailer Lidl for price-fixing of Haribo sweets and drug store chain Rossmann for fixing its coffee prices.
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China's antitrust regulator is investigating possible price-fixing at three foreign makers of memory chips: the South Korean companies Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, as well as Micron Technology of the United States.
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In 2016, the company settled a lawsuit brought by the Department of Justice over price fixing its ebooks to the tune of $450 million, with customers receiving between $1.57 and $6.93 per book.
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Now, according to The Wall Street Journal, the Justice Department is considering bringing an antitrust action against those companies, as if agreeing on environmental standards were a crime comparable to, say, price-fixing.
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ECD, in an attempt to recoup some of its losses, created a trust and filed suit in federal court to force Chinese manufacturers to pay damages resulting from an alleged price-fixing conspiracy.
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A statement this week by China's trustbusters that it had evidence of price-fixing by the three largest makers of DRAM chips, used in computers and smartphones, is a new focus for tech jitters.
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The thriving business, however, declined sharply in the past two years, especially after the implementation of the new Competition Ordinance, which seeks to prohibit unfair business practices such as price fixing and bid rigging.
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The division, along with antitrust enforcers in other countries, has had a long-running criminal probe into price-fixing in the auto parts industry that has led to dozens of companies paying criminal fines.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, July 31 (Reuters) - Brazilian fuel distribution companies Petrobras Distribuidora SA, Ipiranga and Raízen have become targets in an investigation into price fixing, Paraná state police said in a statement on Tuesday.
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That means Uber can't be a monopoly in the Standard Oil sense, but it could be a part of a price-fixing conspiracy, in which an entire industry colludes to raise prices at once.
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Yet another headline risk involves Pilgrim's Pride, the company's U.S. poultry business, which was named last month in a class action lawsuit that alleges price-fixing with a group of other boiler chicken companies.
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These commenced with the "London Whale" LIBOR-fixing scandal discovered in 2012 and were quickly followed by remarkably similar EURIBOR, foreign exchange, precious metal, and commodity price-fixing scandals in the immediately ensuing years.
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And Russia's antitrust watchdog, the FSA, already has its next target, and has opened up a new investigation into claims that Apple is involved in price-fixing for the iPhone 6S and 6S Plus.
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The Justice Department said that McClendon's indictment was the first case in an ongoing federal antitrust investigation into price fixing, bid rigging and other anti-competitive conduct in the oil and natural gas industry.
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The suit accused David Drumheller, the former head of operations at Newcastle Realty Services, of engaging in a price-fixing scheme to deregulate hundreds of apartments managed by the firm from 2012 until 2016.
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At the same time, even brand-name companies are increasingly hiring poorly regulated Indian and Asian plants to make their ingredients or formulations — just as the generic industry is being prosecuted for price-fixing.
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Brazilian prosecutors said the Swiss had arrested Fernando Migliaccio da Silva, an executive with engineering group Odebrecht SA, one of the largest companies at the center of a price fixing and political kickback scandal.
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The fine, the statutory maximum, was assigned by U.S. District Court Judge Edward Chen for what prosecutors described as a price-fixing conspiracy from as early as November 85033 to at least December 2013.
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For example, reports said that J&J and other major producers were fined more than 19 million yuan (currently $3.01 million) for price-fixing in China's eye glass and contact lens market in 2014.
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Mr. Trump has sent conflicting signals: On one hand, he has accused the industry of "price fixing" and has said the government should be allowed to negotiate the price of drugs covered by Medicare.
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"This matter is still under investigation... government is ready to act against market abuse, price fixing and collusion in the private sector in order to protect our country's economy," Zuma said in a speech.
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BERLIN/FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Germany's antitrust authority has fined six stainless steel makers, an industry association and 10 individuals a total of 205 million euros ($239 million) for price fixing and exchanging market-sensitive information.
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U.S. District Judge Thomas Durkin in Chicago granted the government's intervention request after the Department of Justice said it had launched a criminal probe related to price-fixing allegations, which the poultry processors have denied.
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The letter to Heritage comes after criminal and civil charges were filed by the Justice Department and 20 states in connection with an alleged price fixing scheme involving doxycycline hyclate and glyburide, a diabetes drug.
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Sectarian squabbles have paralysed the parliament while crises mount outside: a reeking rubbish mountain, daily electricity and water outages, internet price-fixing and the quiet sell-off of some of the city's last green spaces.
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Prosecutors are also asking to stop the clock on price-fixing and bid-rigging cases, a move that would ensure that the pandemic doesn't let companies that fixed prices on generic drugs off the hook.
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The ruling by U.S. District Judge Thomas Durkin in Chicago came after the Department of Justice said it had launched a criminal probe related to allegations of price-fixing, which the poultry processors have denied.
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The appeals court ruling buttressed investors in several lawsuits in Manhattan seeking to hold banks liable for billions of dollars in damages for alleged price-fixing in U.S. Treasuries, commodities, currencies, derivatives and other rates.
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The U.S. Department of Justice's Antitrust Division filed a "statement of interest" supporting Global Music Rights (GMR), a company that represents songwriters, in a lawsuit accusing Radio Music License Committee Inc (RMLC) of price-fixing.
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WASHINGTON/BEIJING (Reuters) - China's plan to punish a U.S. automaker accused of price-fixing is a sign of how Beijing could retaliate if President-elect Donald Trump upends decades of relations between the two nations.
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Fast forward to 2017 and we see two things—retailers have pocketed the profits intended and promised to consumers, and Congress has an opportunity to right bad public policy in the form of price fixing.
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As head of the Antitrust Division, Delrahim will oversee a department that decides whether to allow multibillion dollar corporate mergers and acquisitions and also whether to seek jail terms for executives guilty of price-fixing.
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Driving the news: What began as an antitrust lawsuit over two drugs has expanded into an investigation into alleged price-fixing involving at least 16 companies and 300 drugs, the Washington Post reported earlier this month.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission said on Monday it had fined three Japanese makers of rechargeable lithium-ion batteries 166 million euros ($176.2 million) for their involvement in a price-fixing cartel from 2004 to 2007.
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But they are losing momentum amid a Chinese price-fixing probe against industry heavyweights such as Samsung Electronics Co Ltd, and Beijing's drive to build home-grown chip champions to cut its reliance on foreign supplies.
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China's threat to slap a price-fixing fine on an as-yet unnamed U.S. automaker is just one example of how Beijing can retaliate if President-elect Trump upends decades of relations between the two countries.
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Driving the news: Generic drugmakers were hit by a price-fixing lawsuit filed by 44 states alleging 20 corporate defendants conspired to fix prices of more than 100 generic drugs, raising prices by more than 1,000%.
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The lawsuit, which was filed in December and sought class-action status on behalf of passengers nationwide, alleges Kalanick engaged in a price-fixing scheme with Uber drivers to raise prices during periods of heavy demand.
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Christopher Lischewski, the fourth person to be charged in a federal price-fixing probe, was indicted in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in San Francisco, the department said in a statement.
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STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Swedish truckmaker Scania said on Tuesday it had filed an appeal against a decision by the European Commission to fine it 880 million euros ($1 billion) for taking part in a price fixing cartel.
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"I understand that we do want to get drug prices down but I think that any proposal that would lead to government price-fixing in that space is a pathway we don't want to follow," Rep.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Nishikawa Rubber Co Ltd has agreed to plead guilty and pay a $130 million criminal fine for its role in a price-fixing conspiracy involving automotive parts, the U.S. Justice Department said on Wednesday.
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As part of the investigation, Cade signed a plea bargain with Siemens AG, after the company voluntarily self-reported its alleged involvement in the price-fixing scheme to Brazilian authorities in 2013 to lessen its responsibility.
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StarKist agreed to plead guilty on Thursday to one felony charge of price fixing for its role in a broad conspiracy to rig the price of canned and ready-to-eat tuna, the Justice Department said.
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Price-fixing claims against the chicken producers have been floating around for years, in suits like the one in Illinois, but the government's involvement is a potentially significant escalation because it means criminal charges could follow.
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If ride-hail drivers collectively bargained as independent contractors either to determine a minimum wage or benefits, antitrust law would see them acting as different corporations colluding to set the cost of their services: price-fixing.
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By the mid-'40s, people quoted in The Times had complained of witch hunts against bathing-suit wearers, horse-racing bookies and a group of New England egg dealers (a pleasing dozen) accused of price fixing.
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The meeting highlights the mounting political pressure the NCAA is facing to change a system that critics have argued is unfair or even akin to price fixing, putting it in potential violation of federal antitrust laws.
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They fear the firm will in fact be controlled by the controversial Mr Coury, who is to be its executive chairman, and Rajiv Malik, his long-serving lieutenant, who is embroiled in the price-fixing complaints.
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Congress can encourage the Trump Department of Justice to use its current enforcement capabilities under the antitrust laws to protect American businesses from all price-fixing conspiracies, especially when such schemes also violate international trade laws.
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The big picture: These potential "deferred prosecution agreements" would only cover the federal probe, not the state-led antitrust investigation, but it could shed light on any price fixing that occurred in the generic drug marketplace.
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If Uber's drivers are independent contractors, not employees, then Uber exposes itself even further to a legal argument that the company is engaged in price-fixing, and that surge pricing is in violation of antitrust laws.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Wednesday threw out the last vestiges of private litigation over alleged aluminum price-fixing, dismissing lawsuits by Eastman Kodak Co, Fujifilm Holdings Corp, Reynolds Consumer Products and three other plaintiffs.
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The O'Melveny lawyer specifically argued that UnitedCorp can't show a per se violation of antitrust law because its allegations didn't match case law on what constitutes overtly anticompetitive conduct, like price-fixing, market allocation or bid-rigging.
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For nearly two years the landmark investigation overseen by Moro has mostly focused on local engineering firms and executives accused of price fixing and overcharging Petrobras for work and then using the extra funds to bribe politicians.
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The backdrop: Generic drugmakers were hit by a price-fixing lawsuit this month, filed by 44 states alleging 20 corporate defendants conspired to fix prices of more than 100 generic drugs, raising prices by more than 1,000%.
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NEW YORK, April 26 (Reuters) - U.S. Steel Corp has filed a complaint with U.S. regulators calling for an investigation into China's largest steel producers over alleged price fixing and circumvention of import duties, it said on Tuesday.
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The Competition Commission said in a statement an investigation had found evidence of "price fixing and collusive tendering" by Waco Africa, through its subsidiary SGB Cape, as well as Tedoc Industries, Mtsweni Corrosion Control and Superfecta Trading.
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In announcing McClendon's indictment Tuesday, the Justice Department billed it as "the first case resulting from an ongoing federal antitrust investigation into price fixing, bid rigging and other anticompetitive conduct in the oil and natural gas industry."
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With so much money at stake, it's not surprising that price-fixing and theft of maple syrup are taking place in Quebec; it appears that some foods are just as fiercely guarded as your favourite recreational drugs.
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Yes, but: Delrahim did say he thought that the ruling could limit antitrust enforcers' ability to take on Uber, Lyft, and Airbnb, but would not protect the companies in the case of criminal behavior, like price fixing.
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U.S. District Judge Thomas Durkin in Chicago granted the government's intervention request after the Department of Justice said last week it had launched a criminal probe related to price-fixing allegations, which the poultry processors have denied.
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U.S. District Judge Cynthia Rufe in Philadelphia ruled on Wednesday that the lawsuit filed by an Illinois-based healthcare facility failed to plausibly allege that McKesson was enlisted by drugmakers into any price-fixing conspiracy they undertook.
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While I applaud the intent of my colleagues who have advanced alternate proposals to end surprise billing, I have serious concerns about the equity of benchmarking and price-fixing systems which would give tremendous power to insurers.
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China will also form a powerful new competition regulator in a bid to ramp up oversight of mergers and acquisitions and price-fixing as the world's second-largest economy seeks to make policymaking more efficient and coordinated.
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All five companies are caught up in an investigation into price fixing and kickbacks at state-run oil company Petrobras, a two-year probe that has seen scores of top executives and politicians jailed, charged or under investigation.
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Martin said the JCL system has provided "mixed success," while pointing to other solutions such as price fixing with contractors, incentivizing vendors for hitting targets, and making sure NASA chooses contractors that are best suited for its investments.
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Wang said it was too early to predict what further measures could be taken but that the government could look at penalties issued by other countries if makers were found to be engaging in such any price fixing.
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Rio de Janeiro-based Petrobras , Brazil's largest state-controlled firm, has been forced to sell assets and slash spending as it recovers from the plunge in oil prices and a giant price-fixing, bribery and political kickback scandal.
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But what could have been two of the biggest topics of conversation - oil prices and OPEC output levels - were not in the cards, as such a broad conversation would run afoul of U.S. antitrust rules against price-fixing.
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The Economic Times newspaper reports that the Competition Commission of India has initiated an investigation on drug makers including Novartis over alleged price fixing of the blockbuster anti-diabetic drug Vildagliptin, citing people aware of the development. bit.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two U.S. lawmakers are questioning whether Heritage Pharmaceuticals misled them in response to a 2014 congressional inquiry about the rising price a common antibiotic, after 20 U.S. states this week accused the company of price fixing.
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That means Apple must abide by the terms of a 2014 settlement to pay $400 million to as many as 23 million e-book consumers who were harmed by Apple's price-fixing conspiracy with five big book publishers.
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"Not only did your company's apparent obstruction undermine our investigation, but it may have caused further harm to patients and health care providers by delaying the discovery of evidence about the companies' price-fixing," Cummings and Sanders wrote.
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In recent years, the Supreme Court has declined to hear several cases involving application of the antitrust laws to alleged price-fixing activities that happen to take place outside the borders of the U.S. but impact U.S. consumers.
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"We need a president who has the guts to appoint an attorney general who will take on these huge monopolies, protect small business and protect consumers by ending the price fixing that we see every day," Harris said.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Victims of cartels may find it easier to seek damages from companies guilty of price fixing after European Union antitrust regulators released on Monday guidelines to help courts calculate the economic harm of anti-competitive practices.
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"We need a president who has the guts to appoint an attorney general who will take on these huge monopolies, protect small business, and protect consumers by ending the price fixing that we see every day," he said.
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"We need a president who has the guts to appoint an attorney general who will take on these huge monopolies, protect small business and protect consumers by ending the price fixing that you see every day," Sanders said.
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Jason Katz, a former Barclays trader who later worked at BNP Paribas, pleaded guilty in Federal District Court in Manhattan to participating in a price-fixing conspiracy, becoming the first person to admit criminal wrongdoing in the inquiry.
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The operation is the latest effort by Brazilian authorities to clamp down on collusion and price fixing in the fuel distribution market, which has been the most common target of accusations for cartel behavior by antitrust watchdog Cade.
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Public backlash will hurt U.S. automakers more than expected fines in a price-fixing probe in China, an automotive analyst said Thursday, speaking on long-running investigation in the world's top vehicle market that appears near to a conclusion.
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"As reported in our public filings for several years, there has already been an ongoing DOJ criminal and civil probe into allegations of price fixing in the generic pharmaceuticals market," Teva spokeswoman Kelley Dougherty said in a written statement.
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"What we've uncovered in the DRAM market is a classic antitrust, price-fixing scheme in which a small number of kingpin corporations hold the lion's share of the market," Berman, managing partner of Hagens Berman, said in a statement.
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Indicated 0.3 percent lower The company agreed to pay Deutsche Bahn a medium double-digit million euro sum to settle damages claims after Germany's anti-trust regulator closed its investigation into price-fixing by rail supplier, Sueddeutsche Zeitung reported.
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A grand jury in San Francisco indicted Christopher Lischewski on one count of price fixing, alleging that from November 2010 to December 2013 he conspired with others in the industry to eliminate competition by setting prices for canned tuna.
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If you bought dairy products between 2003 and now, you could be eligible for up to $20 cash back from the National Milk Producers Federation as part of a $52 million class action settlement for accusations of price fixing.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Japan-based Alpha Corp will pay a $9 million criminal fine after admitting its role in "a price-fixing and bid-rigging conspiracy" over automotive access mechanisms used in cars, the U.S. Justice Department said on Thursday.
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Teva's stock price fell more than 12% to a 19-year low following the downgrade as the lawsuit, which alleges Teva joined with other companies as part of a generic drug price fixing racket, continued to hammer the company.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China will form a powerful new competition and food safety regulator in a bid to ramp up oversight of mergers and acquisitions and price-fixing as the world's second-largest economy seeks to make policymaking more efficient.
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JOHANNESBURG, Feb 6 (Reuters) - South Africa's competition regulator said on Tuesday it would prosecute four companies for alleged price fixing and collusion in a tender for a contract awarded by power utility Eskom worth 4.5 billion rand ($373 million).
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday threw out a $133 million price-fixing verdict against two Chinese companies that were accused of conspiring to raise prices and lower supply of vitamin C sold to U.S. purchasers.
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Meanwhile investors have sued after the company became involved in a price-fixing, bribery and political kickback affair involving some of the same construction and engineering firms that are part of a scandal at state-led oil company Petrobras.
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Motley Rice and Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check have been named lead counsel in a consolidated lawsuit accusing pharmaceutical giant Allergan of misleading investors by not disclosing that it was at risk of a price-fixing probe by U.S. authorities.
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An example of the potential expansion of ITC jurisdiction is highlighted by the ongoing U.S. Steel case regarding certain carbon and alloy steel products, in which U.S. Steel brought a price-fixing claim against virtually all Chinese steel manufacturers.
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Ride-sharing firms Uber and Ola did not break price-fixing rules, the Competition Commission of India (CCI) said in a ruling issued late on Tuesday in response to a complaint about their technological pricing strategy.
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A case brought by a private individual against the holding companies of the two firms claimed that their algorithmic pricing model "takes away the liberty of individual drivers to compete with each other and thus, amounts to price fixing".
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BRUSSELS, March 19 (Reuters) - Whistleblowers will be able to report suspected price-fixing online instead of showing up at the offices of the European Union's antitrust regulators in an effort to make it easier for companies to come forward.
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The nine justices heard arguments in an appeal by two American companies of a lower court ruling that threw out price-fixing claims against two Chinese vitamin C manufacturers based on submissions by China's government explaining that nation's regulations.
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After Daimler and other truckmakers were accused in 2011 of price fixing and subsequently fined, the German company at least in part pulled out of the industry tie-ups that are now the subject of inquiries, Sueddeutsche Zeitung said.
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Shanghai's local pricing regulator, under the direction of the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), fined the three subsidiaries for including price fixing measures in sales policies and agreements with vendors, according to a statement on the NDRC website.
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Banks that choose to set the fees individually rather than through price fixing are free to set the fee as high as they like, but no major bank so far has come forth to put competition ahead of collusion.
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ZURICH (Reuters) - Novartis on Monday said claims of price fixing against its Sandoz generics unit amid a U.S. probe of 20 drugmakers are without merit, with the Swiss company vowing to fight allegations in a lawsuit filed last week.
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The top 10 American drug companies, repeatedly investigated for price fixing and other potentially illegal actions, made nearly $70 billion in profits last year, even as Americans paid the most per capita among developed nations for their prescription medicine.
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Listing rules and anti-trust legislation, particularly in the United States, also preclude price-fixing, which Aramco could be accused of if it continued to follow Saudi Arabia's OPEC policy of adjusting output to manage prices, the sources said.
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SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore on Friday fined five electronics parts makers a total of S$19.5 million ($14.7 million) for price-fixing and other cartel activities, the biggest anti-competition penalty in the city-state, the Competition Commission of Singapore (CCS) said.
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To fully appreciate the scope of the generic drug pricing problem, remember that the Justice Department and 45 states are currently in court accusing generic drug makers of price fixing and costing Americans more than $1 billion for their medicines.
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In December, the China Daily reported that the NDRC was paying close attention to a recent surge in the price of chips used for long-term data storage in phones and could look into possible price fixing by the manufacturers.
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BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) - A Chinese regulator has fined a local unit of U.S.-listed medical device firm Medtronic PLC 118.5 million yuan ($17.20 million) for price fixing, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) said in a statement on Wednesday.
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The program will cost 36.93 billion reais and is open to all employees, according to a statement from Petrobras, which has been hard hit by low oil prices, refinery project problems and a massive price-fixing, bribery and political kickback scandal.
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NOPEC, or the No Oil Producing and Exporting Cartels Act, would authorize the Justice Department to sue groups like OPEC that are deemed cartels for price fixing and antitrust violations, stripping countries of sovereign immunity protections currently built into U.S. law.
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For more on the company, click on Three of the biggest makers of diabetes treatments, Sanofi SA, Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly and Co, were named in a class action lawsuit about price fixing filed by a group of patients.
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The fine marks the latest action taken by the U.S. central bank as part of a long-running crackdown on price-fixing across foreign exchange markets, in which several banks have already pleaded guilty to conspiring to manipulate currency prices.
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"Most people, when they get out of 'Club Fed' [prison for white-collar criminals] from a price-fixing conspiracy, they kind of land on their feet, go into consulting," or even get hired back by their former companies, Bush said.
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WASHINGTON, Dec 16 (Reuters) - Two U.S. lawmakers are questioning whether Heritage Pharmaceuticals misled them in response to a 2014 congressional inquiry about the rising price a common antibiotic, after 20 U.S. states this week accused the company of price fixing.
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Socony-Vacuum Oil Co., a price-fixing case brought against U.S. oil companies who, akin to the vitamin C producers in this case, argued in defense that they had operated under the not-quite-explicit blessing of a government entity.
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BEIJING, March 13 (Reuters) - China will form a powerful new competition regulator in a bid to ramp up oversight of mergers and acquisitions and price-fixing as the world's second-largest economy seeks to make policymaking more efficient and coordinated.
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Dubbed "NOPEC," the measure would make it illegal to set oil prices or curb its production, remove the sovereign immunity that has safeguarded OPEC members from US legal action, and enable the attorney general to sue the cartel for price fixing.
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In that case, the court said that state and local governments, which paid higher construction costs to their general contractors as a result of price fixing by cement block manufacturers, could not sue to recover damages from the price fixers.
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McCuaig played a key part in DOJ's successful effort to block a $50 billion merger between Anthem Inc and Cigna Corp in 2017, and led its earlier investigation into alleged price-fixing by Apple Inc and five e-book publishers.
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The drug companies argued in their stay application that they would suffer irreparable harm if they were forced to disclose sensitive corporate documents that may turn out to have nothing to do with the price-fixing allegations in the multidistrict litigation.
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Following an investigation by the U.S. Justice Department that began about 10 years ago, 46 companies agreed to pay a total of nearly $3 billion in fines while pleading guilty to price-fixing and bid-rigging in the auto parts industry.
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Before these reforms were put in place, whenever a customer swiped a card, local beverage businesses were plunged into a murky backwater of price-fixing where big banks used their muscle to squash competitors and charge outrageous fees for their services.
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In Pickett v Tyson Fresh Meats, the 11th Circuit stated that the PSA was enacted to "prevent…price fixing and manipulation and monopolization" and required that aggrieved cattle producers demonstrate that meat packer action resulted in an industry-wide competitive harm.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's anti-monopoly service has opened an investigation into the official Russian importer of Dutch technology company Philips' phones for alleged smartphone price fixing, TASS news agency cited the deputy head of the watchdog as saying on Thursday.
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And opposition research has flourished online, including one that accused him of playing a role in a bread price fixing scheme at a Canadian grocery store chain that began and ended long after his months-long consulting stint for the company.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. judge ruled that Uber can force an unhappy Connecticut customer's price-fixing case against the ride-service company into arbitration, after the customer said the proposed class action belonged in court because he never agreed to arbitrate.
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The NDRC's move was not directed against Trump's latest comments but to show it was not letting up pressure on price fixing behaviour in the auto sector after a raft of fines last year, a source at a government-affiliated industry association said.
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The complaint alleges that during 2015 and 2016 Novo reported "materially false and misleading earnings and forecasts in that they were inflated through the collusive price fixing of the company's insulin drugs," law firm Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann said in a press release.
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Though separate local market share figures were not available, industry executives said the Delhi ban would be a major setback for AB InBev, which is also battling a separate Indian antitrust probe concerning alleged beer price fixing by SABMiller and other companies.
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"Apparently unsatisfied with the status quo of 'fair share' and the mere avoidance of price erosion, Teva and its co-conspirators embarked on one of the most egregious and damaging price-fixing conspiracies in the history of the United States," the complaint said.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to halt a class action lawsuit against several containerboard manufacturers, which could now face trial on claims of price fixing by tens of thousands of buyers and nearly $12 billion in potential damages.
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Here are some of the lesser-known side effects: Disaster fraud: Between fake charity donation sites being established to collect money, false insurance claims, and price fixing, natural disasters give way to billions of dollars lost in fraudulent activities, per the Economist.
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But, it's amazing for the industry that has shown such disdain for ethics and the economy – from the mortgage crisis to unauthorized accounts – to argue that Congress should roll back reforms that brought some competition and limits on price-fixing to debit cards.
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Teva has faced numerous recent hurdles, including successful patent challenges to its most important branded product - the multiple sclerosis treatment Copaxone, integration of the Actavis generics business it bought last year for $40.5 billion, and a U.S. investigation into generic drug price fixing.
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The DRAM sector has been a frequent target of regulatory probes globally over price-fixing allegations as the industry has seen a flurry of deals that left the two South Korean firms and their U.S. rival commanding 96 percent of the market.
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"We are very concerned that you made these assertions to Congress on behalf of Heritage during the exact time period that its executives were engaged in a price fixing scheme to prevent competition from driving down prices of doxycycline hyclate," they wrote.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal judge on Friday granted a request by Uber Technologies Inc and its chief executive officer to put a passenger's price-fixing lawsuit against them on hold, while they appeal his refusal to let them arbitrate the dispute.
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Dozens of Brazilian engineering firms accused of price fixing and overcharging Petrobras for work, in order to pass on excess funds as bribes to executives and politicians, have been blacklisted from signing new contracts but have not had existing contracts voided by Petrobras.
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A year earlier, writedowns were also the cause of Petrobras losses, although they were largely related to the giant price-fixing, bribery and political kickback scandal that has roiled the company and help fuel calls for the impeachment of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff.
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Justice Scalia's death and the loss of a reliably pro-business vote have already caused Dow Chemical to pay $835 million to settle an antitrust price-fixing case that it had lost in lower courts and that was on the Supreme Court's docket.
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He also alleges his manager at Citigroup, an experienced forex spot market trader tasked with reviewing and evaluating Ramchandani's communications, had volunteered that Ramchandani had not engaged in "collusion or price fixing" and there was "nothing criminal" in his intent or actions.
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A separate investigation on the issue conducted by the federal Department of Justice has been ongoing for years, and last year resulted in Japanese manufacturer Maruyasu Industries Co. pleading guilty to criminal price fixing and agreeing to pay a $12 million fine.
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"Apparently unsatisfied with the status quo of 'fair share' and the mere avoidance of price erosion, Teva and its co-conspirators embarked on one of the most egregious and damaging price-fixing conspiracies in the history of the United States," the complaint said.
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - An Indian anti-trust probe into beer price-fixing allegations was initiated after the world's largest brewer Anheuser-Busch InBev told the authorities last year it had detected an industry cartel, three people familiar with the matter told Reuters.
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Lawsuits regarding Mylan's role in the opioid crisis and price fixing of generic drugs, and a lack of clarity on a potential revamp of the company's strategy have weighed on the generic drugmaker's shares, which are currently trading around their near 8-year low.
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WASHINGTON, May 26 (Reuters) - The U.S. International Trade Commission said on Thursday it launched an investigation into complaints by United States Steel Corp that Chinese competitors stole its trade secrets, engaged in price fixing and misrepresented the origin of their exports to the United States.
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SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China's economic regulator is paying close attention to a recent surge in the price of mobile phone storage chips and could look into possible price fixing by the firms that make them, a senior official told the state-run China Daily newspaper.
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Sotheby's beat Christie's for the collection — which ranges from old masters to 22006th-century masterworks — by offering its record-setting guarantee to the family of Mr. Taubman, who went to prison for his role in a price-fixing scandal with Christie's and died last April.
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Apple is funding over $400 million in credits to e-book customers after the Supreme Court denied the tech giant's request to appeal an antitrust class action lawsuit, which alleged that Apple and five major publishers participated in an e-book price-fixing scheme.
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The revelation that Uber hired a CIA veteran to conduct investigations into an opponent came in a judge's order Tuesday in a legal tussle between Uber founder Travis Kalanick and a plaintiff who alleges that Kalanick engaged in a price-fixing scheme with Uber drivers.
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The accord, which could reduce any penalties in return for the company's cooperation, is one of several to come from plea bargains in a corruption investigation that has revealed bribery and price fixing in major public works built by some of Brazil's biggest conglomerates.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Swedish truckmaker Scania was hit with an 880 million euro ($1 billion) fine by the EU on Wednesday for taking part in a 14-year price fixing cartel, boosting the total fine for the firms involved to a record 3.8 billion euros.
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NEW YORK, Nov 23 (Reuters) - A U.S. judge ruled that Uber can force an unhappy Connecticut customer's price-fixing case against the ride-service company into arbitration, after the customer said the proposed class action belonged in court because he never agreed to arbitrate.
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In late December, state-run China Daily reported China's National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) was paying close attention to a surge in the price of mobile phone storage chips and could look into possible price fixing by Samsung and others that make them.
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"If you have consolidation and fewer players, they could find it easier to fix prices and keep them high, which would be good for them, but we don't want to go back to a situation of cartels and price fixing in the industry," said Schreiber.
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Pioneer spanned the widest geographical range with 12 affected EU member states, including Germany, France, and the UK. Aside from price fixing, the company also rejected orders from retailers who wanted to sell across borders within the EU, thereby sustaining different pricing in different countries.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Feb 10 (Reuters) - A group of international investors and law firms are seeking compensation from Brazil's state-led oil company Petrobras under European law for losses allegedly suffered as the result of a giant price-fixing, bribery and political kickback scandal.
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Uber was banned from using information gathered by a secretive, CIA-linked research firm on the plaintiff who brought a price-fixing lawsuit, after a judge in the case reprimanded the firm for behavior that could "arguably" be called criminal conduct, according to Reuters.
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Thurman Arnold, FDR's head of antitrust enforcement, cracked down on some of the country's biggest corporations and trade associations, from General Motors and Alcoa to the American Medical Association and the Associated Press, which were engaged in price fixing and other anti-competitive activities.
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WASHINGTON, April 17 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to halt a class action lawsuit against several containerboard manufacturers, which could now face trial on claims of price fixing by tens of thousands of buyers and nearly $12 billion in potential damages.
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There is rarely any great hue and cry about fewer prosecutors being available to pursue health care fraud or price-fixing, the types of cases that do not generate big headlines, so moving people out of those areas is unlikely to draw much notice.
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As head of the Justice Department's Antitrust Division, Baer oversaw such cases as the scheme by Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, Barclays and others to rig the foreign currency exchange spot market as well as the case against Apple for price-fixing e-books, Lynch said.
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Endo InternationalWhat happened: The maker of the opioid painkiller Percocet lost more than 2420 percent of its value in 2390, a year pocked with financial disappointment, marketing controversy, and the specter of a criminal investigation related to allegations of price-fixing of generic drugs.
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The Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC) said the proceedings related to allegations that between September 2013 and June 2014 a former BlueScope general manager of sales and marketing tried to get distributors in Australia and overseas manufacturers to enter agreements with price fixing provisions.
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This assures that community banks under $10 billion in assets—who are exempt to the Durbin price-fixing provisions, but not these routing provisions—will face a gradual, yet persistent, decline in their debit card revenue because that choice now resides with the merchant.
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The generic drug industry was jolted on Thursday as shares of many major companies tumbled after a news report said that a federal inquiry into drug price-fixing was wider than previously believed and could lead to charges by the end of the year.
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The largest-ever corruption investigation in Brazil has revealed an elaborate scheme of price-fixing among engineering firms, allegedly led by Odebrecht, to overcharge state-run oil firm Petroleo Brasileiro SA and use the access funds to bribe officials, many in President Dilma Rousseff's coalition.
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But Uber has also been accused of problematic like misclassifying drivers to deny them benefits or better pay, discriminating against passengers with service animals, price fixing and failing to report sexual assault by drivers against passengers to appropriate local authorities, to name just a few.
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The Caval matter is one of a series of high-profile corruption scandals that shook the corporate and political establishment of Chile over the past year, involving collusion and price-fixing by major industries and companies, illegal corporate financing for electoral campaigns and misuse of military spending.
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It was the second time in three months that the regulator, FNE, said it had uncovered a price-fixing scheme affecting consumers, and a member of the Christian Democrat party, part of the ruling Nueva Mayoria political coalition, said such behavior must be punishable with jail time.
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This week, the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), released a new analysis, Price-Fixing Prescription Drugs Will Cost Us in Cures, which outlines issues impacting prescription drug policy and educates policymakers on practical solutions that will help bring down the cost of brand and specialty prescription drugs.
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MUMBAI, Oct 12 (Reuters) - Shares in India's United Breweries Ltd fell as much as 3 percent on Friday, a day after Reuters reported the brewer and two of its global rivals, had been raided in India as part of an ongoing investigation into price-fixing allegations.
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Cunha has said repeatedly that he will not resign, even though he faces charges of receiving a $5 million bribe in the widening price-fixing and political kickback scheme that has landed executives of top engineering companies in jail and ensnared dozens of politicians from Rousseff's coalition.
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"Today's charge is the third to be filed — and the first to be filed against a corporate defendant — in the [DOJ's] antitrust division's ongoing investigation into price fixing among some of the largest suppliers of packaged seafood," said Andrew Finch, the DOJ's acting assistant attorney general.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal judge on Monday banned Uber Technologies Inc and its Chief Executive Travis Kalanick from using information from a background check on a passenger bringing a price-fixing lawsuit, saying the investigative firm conducting the probe may have engaged in criminal conduct.
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"Not only did your company's apparent obstruction undermine our investigation, but it may have caused further harm to patients and health care providers by delaying the discovery of evidence about the companies' price-fixing," Cummings and Sanders wrote in each of the letters, dated August 13.
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Sources speaking on background spoke of "witch wars" between rival shop proprietors as well as price-fixing of services like Tarot readings, while some sources I contacted for this article would only agree to be interviewed on the condition certain proprietors be excluded from my reporting.
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A wide-ranging investigation into generic drug prices took its most significant turn yet on Thursday, as state attorneys general accused two industry leaders, Teva Pharmaceuticals and Mylan, and four smaller companies of engaging in brazen price-fixing schemes — and promised that more charges were coming.
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"It is sick and disgraceful that generic pharmaceutical executives, who should be making medicines affordable for the American people, were instead busy coordinating a cover-up scheme to hide the truth about their price-fixing conspiracy when we asked about their skyrocketing prices," Sanders said in a statement.
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FRANKFURT, Feb 25 (Reuters) - German financial watchdog Bafin has closed special audits on Deutsche Bank and will take no further action against the lender for its role in the interest rate rigging and precious metals price fixing scandals as well as a derivatives trade with Italy's Monte dei Paschi.
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The company has consistently denied it was involved in e-books price-fixing — arguing instead that its iBooks store offered customers "more choice and injected much-needed innovation and competition into the market", and that its 2009-2010 contract negotiations with publishers over ebooks constituted 'normal business practice'.
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For instance, although certain information sharing is regarded by the antitrust laws to be competitively benign, the exchange of current or future prices or other competitively sensitive information can facilitate price fixing, which is among the most serious of antitrust offenses and can be prosecuted as a crime.
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The following are some of the factors that may move German stocks: The European Union on Saturday confirmed that a probe into alleged price-fixing and agreements on vehicle developments, brakes, petrol and diesel engines, clutches and transmissions by German carmakers is underway, raising pressure on the industry.
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Fear of Amazon's growing dominance over print and electronic book sales led five of the six largest corporate publishers at the time to illegally join forces with Apple, a gambit that cost them hundreds of millions after the Department of Justice sued them for price-fixing in 2013.
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This issue is particularly important since while the 5 percent will supposedly be governed by free market forces, the 95 percent will be effectively steered by a price-fixing cartel — OPEC — the very same organization that Trump has been criticizing for years for cheating America through oil price manipulations.
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As President Trump pointed out on the campaign trail, by price-fixing the federal funds rate for political purposes, the liberal donors working at the Fed have kept the economy in a "big, fat economic bubble" — enriching the well-to-do while destroying the purchasing power of American families.
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Buttigieg revealed last year that he was involved in efforts to help Canadian supermarket chain Loblaws set in-store prices for various items during his time at McKinsey, an admission that drew scrutiny over Loblaws's involvement in a price-fixing scandal involving the price of bread at its various store locations.
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New data on federal spending on programmes for the poor and the elderly show that last year $9.2bn was spent on a single medicine—Harvoni, which cures Hepatitis C. More such tales can be expected from the ongoing antitrust investigation by the Department of Justice into possible price fixing in generic drugs.
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A federal judge violated "the most fundamental norms of civil discovery" by ordering dozens of generic pharmaceutical companies to turn over documents to plaintiffs' counsel in a multidistrict price-fixing case without first determining if the material is relevant, attorneys for the companies told the U.S. Supreme Court in papers filed Thursday.
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Electrolytic capacitors are used in a range of electronic products, including computers, televisions and car engines, to store and regulate electric current Nichicon is the seventh company to be charged with price-fixing in the industry while 10 people have been charged, according to Marvin Price, director of the Antitrust Division's criminal enforcement unit.
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Stephen Hodge, a former senior vice president for sales at StarKist, pleaded guilty last year to price-fixing "American consumers deserve free enterprise, not fixed prices, so the department will not tolerate crimes like the one charged in today&aposs indictment," Assistant Attorney General Makan Delrahim said in a statement announcing Lischewski&aposs indictment.
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She is one of the most prominent art world figures to face prison since 25, when the former chairman of Sotheby's, A. Alfred Taubman, was sentenced to a year and a day in prison and fined $2000 million for leading a price-fixing scheme with Christie's that swindled customers out of more than $100 million.
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Apple Store The Death of Cars in Cities Has Been Greatly Exaggerated EU Punishes Asus For Laptop Price Fixing With $74M Fine Mozilla Developer Claims Google Is Slowing YouTube on Firefox The cryptocurrency scams, which have been going on for months, generally involve a Twitter account impersonating a celebrity and then claiming to offer free Bitcoin to any followers.
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Last year, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals heard a case alleging price fixing against Uber and its former CEO Travis Kalanick; Uber successfully argued that the case needed to be sent to arbitration, pointing out that when you create an Uber account, there is small text telling you that you're also agreeing to Uber's terms of service.
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At the heart of both decisions wasn't whether the NCAA was violating the purpose of antitrust law by price-fixing and restraining trade—the association clearly is—but whether athletes could make money from playing sports, directly through salaries or indirectly through name, image and license (NIL) rights and/or third-party payments, and still be students.
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BRASILIA/CURITIBA, Brazil (Reuters) - Brazil's federal police said they had arrested two people and raided properties on Tuesday over alleged corruption at building firm Queiroz Galvao, widening a sweeping investigation focused on state-run oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA. "Operation Carwash" was launched two years ago to tackle price fixing, bribery and political kickbacks at Petrobras, as the company is commonly known.
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The first case was a humdinger in its own way; the court threw out a $147 million judgment in a long-running challenge to international price-fixing in vitamin C. But it was on fairly obscure grounds: Defendants proved they had fixed their prices because they were legally compelled to do it, with formal proof provided by the Chinese government itself.
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Plaintiffs in the generics price-fixing MDL – including 54 states, territories and commonwealths as well as dozens of name healthcare funds, drug cooperatives, wholesale pharmacy chains acting as named plaintiffs in class actions – opposed the drugmakers' stay request, arguing (among other things) that the Supreme Court should not slow down this highly complex litigation by involving itself in a fact-specific discovery dispute.
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The company has disclosed that it is under investigation for its marketing practices for several products, including for the multiple sclerosis drug Gilenya, and that it has been subpoenaed in several industrywide investigations, including one looking into price-fixing among generic drug makers and another investigating the role of companies' contributions to charitable groups that provide financial assistance to patients who use Novartis's products.
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While the majority of cases have been consolidated in the multidistrict litigation (MDL) proceeding, only track 1 (Ohio cases) could yield a binding ruling (potentially 1H20) the rest of cases could extend to 2021+; 2) updated valuation – our updated DCF valuation of $9/shr includes $3.5bn in present value ($5.1bn gross) for potential litigation exposure from separate opioid and price fixing lawsuits still reflects a one-turn premium (EV/EBITDA) vs.
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In July, Brazilian police launched an investigation of Panama's FPB Bank, which allegedly worked with the "Panama Papers" law firm to transfer abroad money that came in part from a multibillion-dollar price-fixing and bribery scheme at Petroleo Brasileiro SA. Police said FPB Bank was under investigation for "financial crimes, laundering of assets and transnational criminal organization" for offering private banking services without the authorization of Brazil's central bank.
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Prosecutors said the operation was based on testimony from plea and leniency deals with construction firm Camargo Correa SA in an ongoing corruption probe into price fixing and political kickbacks at state-run oil firm Petroleo Brasileiro SA. Police said in the state of Goias alone, the embezzlement of 630 million reais ($160 million) had been detected for segments under construction for the North-South Railway, a long-delayed project that would ease shipments of corn and soybeans.
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DeLauro also asked USDA to investigate funds used to purchase Pilgrim's Pride, the largest U.S. poultry company, is one of several American poultry companies under federal investigation for price-fixing JBS USA received more than $90 million in contracts with the USDA since 2018, and tens of millions more through President TrumpDonald John TrumpOvernight Defense: Ex-Navy secretary slams Trump in new op-ed | Impeachment tests Pompeo's ties with Trump | Mexican president rules out US 'intervention' against cartels EXCLUSIVE: 2020 Dem Andrew Yang releases tax returns Giuliani calls Trump to say he was joking about 'insurance policy' MORE's bailout for farmers hindered by the U.S.-China trade war.
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