The Department of Justice (DOJ) has dropped charges against five poultry industry executives on trial for antitrust violations.
The executives were indicted in 2020, and the DOJ said the five leaders engaged in “a continuing combination and conspiracy to suppress and eliminate competition by rigging bids and fixing prices and other price-related terms for broiler chicken products sold in the United States.”
A court document said charges were originally brought across all 10 defendants to “promote judicial economy,” but “dismissal without prejudice will allow the government to properly enforce federal law by proceeding against the remaining five defendants and to promote the fair administration of criminal justice.”
