Tag: DOJ
Panasonic, Samsung & Others Settle Price Fixing Suit
Hitachi, Panasonic, Philips, Samsung, Thomson, and Toshiba got preliminary approval from a San Francisco federal judge for a US$513 million settlement partly resolving a...
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...
DOJ Cautions Business Against Coronavirus Price Hikes
The Department of Justice today announced its intention to hold accountable anyone who violates the antitrust laws of the United States in connection with...
AT&T Works With DOJ In Google Probe
AT&T is working with the Justice Department as the government considers whether to bring an antitrust case against Alphabet Inc.’s Google, two years after...
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...
Sandoz Agrees to Pay $195M Criminal Fine, Largest For A US...
Sandoz a generic pharmaceutical company headquartered in New Jersey, was charged for conspiring to allocate customers, rig bids, and fix prices for generic drugs,...
DOJ Healthcare Antitrust Chief Joins Clifford Chance
The Justice Department’s top healthcare antitrust enforcer, Peter Mucchetti, has joined Clifford Chance.
Mucchetti, who spent 19 years with the DOJ’s antitrust division, is now...
Bill Barr Takes-over DOJ’s Tech Probe
Attorney General William Barr has set his sights on big tech companies like Google and Facebook, and has personally taken over the Department of Justice’s...
CPI Talks… with Senator Mike Lee
In this edition of CPI Talks, we have the pleasure of speaking with Senator Mike Lee, senior U.S. Senator for Utah, and Chair of...
DOJ Faults Google For Antitrust Document Delay
Google’s delays in turning over documents in an antitrust investigation are “unacceptable,” the US Justice Department told the company in a letter this week,the...