The U.S. Justice Department’s probe of an alleged conspiracy among aerospace industry executives to restrict employees’ ability to move to other companies and secure better pay broadened Thursday as a federal grand jury in Bridgeport returned an indictment against six executives and managers.
Among those named in the complaint is Mahesh Patel, a Connecticut-based former director of global engineering services at an unnamed major aerospace engineering company and the suspected leader of the conspiracy, according to prosecutors.
WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - President Biden’s candidate to run the Justice Department’s antitrust division may face tough questioning at congressional hearings starting today, as business leaders and Republican lawmakers complain the administration is twisting antitrust law into a tool for vague social justice goals and income redistribution.