Six current and former chicken-industry executives have been indicted on price-fixing charges, according to court documents, expanding the U.S. government’s antitrust prosecutions in the $65 billion poultry industry.
The charges target executives from six different chicken companies, including Pilgrim’s Pride Corp., and provide new details about the alleged conspiracy. Prosecutors alleged the price-fixing took place from 2012 into early 2019, a longer period than the Justice Department previously had alleged.
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