On Monday, many of the ten individuals named in the District of Colorado criminal antitrust lawsuit regarding the broiler chicken industry asked the court
Five chicken industry executives were acquitted Thursday in a Denver court of conspiring to fix prices from 2012 to 2019, a defeat for prosecutors that came after two mistrials.
The U.S. has dropped all charges against five of the 10 defendants in a price-fixing case that targeted workers and executives from some of the nation's largest chicken producing companies.
"The fix was in." That's what the Justice Department charged against major players in the U.S. chicken industry as a hotly anticipated criminal antitrust trial got underway in Denver this week.