bid-rigging - Volkov Law

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Antitrust Division Indicts Company, Executive and Employee for $100 Million Price-Fixing Conspiracy

DOJ's Antitrust Division has been relatively quiet in prosecuting criminal cartel or bid-rigging cases. Since 2015, the Antitrust Division's criminal enforcement has fallen from the billions in penalties each year to the lower hundreds of millions. Most of this may reflect the end of the

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Contech Engineered Pleads Guilty and Agrees to Pay $8.5 Million for Bid-Rigging and Fraud

The Antitrust Division has pushed bid-rigging and price-fixing prosecutions of government contractors. It is long overdue – fraud enforcement has uncovered a number of bid-rigging and price-fixing schemes among government contractors. To focus on this enforcement priority, DOJ created the Procurement Collusion Strike Force, which was initiated