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The Justice Department announced today that the Procurement Collusion Strike Force (PCSF) welcomed four new national law enforcement partners to the Strike Force, for a total of 34 agencies and offices committed to deterring, detecting, investigating and prosecuting antitrust crimes and related schemes that target government procurement, grants, and program funding at all levels of…
Continue readingA construction company owner became the third person to plead guilty for his role in a bid-rigging and bribery scheme involving California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) improvement and repair contracts. From the U.S. Department of Justice: Read More
Continue readingAxion Specialty Contracting LLC (Axion) was sentenced to pay a $1,001,989 criminal fine and $313,121 in restitution on Nov. 4 in Bridgeport, Connecticut, for its participation in a bid-rigging scheme targeting public and private entities in Connecticut. This is the third sentencing arising out of a long-running investigation into the insulation contracting industry. From the…
Continue readingToday, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruled in favor of the Justice Department in its civil antitrust lawsuit to block book publisher Penguin Random House’s proposed $2.2 billion acquisition of Simon & Schuster. The court found that the effect of the proposed merger would be to substantially lessen competition in the market…
Continue readingThe president of a paving and asphalt contractor based in Billings, Montana, has pleaded guilty to attempting to monopolize the market for highway crack-sealing services in Montana and Wyoming. From the U.S. Department of Justice: Read More
Continue readingPROVIDENCE – A Providence man found by law enforcement to be in possession of more than 50 grams of crystal methamphetamine and two guns was sentenced today to five years in federal prison, announced United States Attorney Zachary A. Cunha. From the U.S. Department of Justice: Read More
Continue readingHealth Care Company Pleads Guilty and Is Sentenced for Conspiring to Suppress Wages of School Nurses
VDA OC LLC (VDA), a health care staffing company, pleaded guilty and was sentenced today for entering into and engaging in a conspiracy with a competitor to allocate employee nurses and to fix the wages of those nurses. From the U.S. Department of Justice: Read More
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Continue readingThe Justice Department announced today that seven directors have resigned from corporate board positions in response to concerns by the Antitrust Division that their roles violated the Clayton Act’s prohibition on interlocking directorates. Section 8 of the Clayton Act (Section 8) prohibits directors and officers from serving simultaneously on the boards of competitors, subject to…
Continue readingReadout of Secretary Raimondo’s Meeting with Singapore Senior Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam ASowah@doc.gov Fri, 10/14/2022 – 13:02 Export and investment promotion FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Friday, October 14, 2022 Office of Public Affairs publicaffairs@doc.gov Today, Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo thanked Singapore Senior Minister and Coordinating Minister for Social Policies Tharman Shanmugaratnam for Singapore’s cooperation on the…
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