Tag: Bid-Rigging
Fuel Supply Bid-Rigging Prosecution Highlights Interplay of Whistleblower Statute and Antitrust...
Sonny A. Carpenter & Jeffrey Martino (The Antitrust Advocate)
On April 8, the Department of Justice (DOJ) Antitrust Division (Division), the DOJ Civil Division and the...
Avoiding Price Gouging, Price Fixing and Other Antitrust Risks During the...
By Carl Hittinger & Ann O’Brien (BakerHostetler)1
The COVID-19 global pandemic has upended typical supply and demand in unprecedented ways. As the world struggles to...
DOJ Settlement With A Firm Involved in Bid Rigging For US...
South Korea-based company Jier Shin Korea and its president, Sang Joo Lee, have agreed to pay US$2 million to the United States for civil...
Germany Imposes €110M In Fines For M&E Bid-Rigging
The Bundeskartellamt, Germany’s competition regulator, has levied fines totalling €110 million (US$118.8 million) against 11 contractors after finding they colluded on bids for major...
Two Execs Plead Guilty to Rigging Bids
Two commercial flooring executives, Robert A. Patrey Jr. and Kenneth R. Smith, pleaded guilty for their role in an antitrust conspiracy to rig bids...
Osage County Commissioner Charged With Felony Bid Rigging
Osage County Commissioner Kevin Paslay has been charged with bid rigging, a felony offense, in Osage County and a warrant has been issued for...
Extradited Automotive Exec Pleads Guilty To Antitrust Charge
Eun Soo Kim, a former key accounts manager for Continental Automotive Korea and a Korean national, was extradited from Germany and pleaded guilty for...
US Businessman Pleads Guilty To Federal Bid-Rigging
East Haven businessman Thomas F. Langan, co-owner of Langan Insulation of North Haven, along with his company, pleaded guilty Tuesday, February 4, in federal...
US: Former executive at Chinese bank pleads guilty in bid-rigging case
A former vice president at the New York brokerage unit of a large Chinese bank pleaded guilty to a criminal antitrust charge, the latest...
US: Commercial flooring contractor pleads guilty to bid rigging
PCI FlorTech, an Illinois-based commercial flooring contractor, has been charged for its role in a long-running conspiracy to rig bids and fix prices for...
