Four
chicken industry
executives were indicted Wednesday for allegedly conspiring to fix
prices on chickens sold to restaurants and grocery stores, the Justice
Department's first charges in a continuing criminal antitrust probe. The
one-count indictment, returned by a federal grand jury in Colorado,
alleges current and former senior executives at Pilgrim's Pride Corp.
and Claxton Poultry Farms fixed prices and rigged bids from 2012 to
2017. Colorado-based Pilgrim's is the nation's second largest
producer. Company Chief Executive Jayson Penn was charged, as was a
former Pilgrim's vice president, Roger Austin. The president of
Georgia-based Claxton, Mikell Fries, and a vice president, Scott Brady,
were both indicted...
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