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Criminal,
Antitrust & Trade Reg.

Oct. 19, 2018

Canned tuna distributor pleads guilty to pricefixing

A canned tuna distributor agreed Thursday to plead guilty and cooperate in an ongoing investigation into price fixing in the packaged seafood industry, the U.S. Department of Justice announced.

Canned tuna distributor pleads guilty to pricefixing
Makan Delrahim, the assistant attorney general for the antitrust division at the United States Department of Justice, in Washington, Nov. 7, 2017. (New York Times News Service)

A canned tuna distributor agreed to plead guilty and cooperate in an ongoing investigation into price fixing in the packaged seafood industry, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Thursday.

StarKist Co. and co-conspirators colluded to fix prices as early as 2011 to 2013, according to the felony complaint filed in the Northern District in San Francisco.

“The conspiracy to fix prices on these ho...

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