Chicken industry executives indicted for price fixing

04-Jun-2020 - USA

A federal grand jury has indicted four current and former chicken company executives for price fixing. The U.S. Department of Justice said Wednesday that the executives from Colorado-based Pilgrim's Pride and Georgia-based Claxton Poultry conspired to fix prices and rig bids for broiler chickens from at least 2012 to 2017.

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They are the first executives to be charged in a long-running investigation of price-fixing in the chicken industry. The executives could face 10 years in prison and a $1 million fine. Pilgrim's Pride Corp. shares tumbled 10% Tuesday afternoon.

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