Ethics/Professional Responsibility,
Criminal
Oct. 5, 2018
‘Extraordinary’ conflict leads to lighter sentence in major price-fixing scheme
A Japanese corporation accused of leading a years-long criminal conspiracy caught a break after its lawyers discovered a government conflict.
In what prosecutors described as "extremely unusual extenuating circumstances" involving a conflicted government attorney, a Japanese corporation accused of being a major conspirator in a price-fixing scheme has settled its criminal case for a fine that's nearly half as much as it originally faced.
Nippon Chemi-Con Corp.'s plea deal, approved this week by U.S. District Judge James Donato in San Francisco, emerged after attorneys for ...
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