December 21, 2022
The U.S. Department of Justice suffered a string of stinging setbacks in criminal antitrust cases this year but also extracted guilty pleas in emerging areas of enforcement, while private antitrust parties saw key rulings on patent and class issues.
December 08, 2022
The former owner of a physical therapist staffing company who was the only defendant convicted in April by a Texas federal jury in the U.S. Department of Justice's first-ever criminal wage-fixing case that ended mostly in acquittals was sentenced Thursday to three years of probation on his obstruction conviction.
May 20, 2022
For juror number eight, the U.S. Department of Justice's first criminal prosecution of wage-fixing fell apart due to shaky evidence and weak testimony from government witnesses, including an FBI agent who said one of the defendants claimed to have been locked out of his phone when what the agent really meant was an iCloud account.
May 17, 2022
The former owner of a physical therapist staffing company acquitted in a landmark wage-fixing case asked a Texas federal court Monday to toss his sole conviction for allegedly obstructing the government's investigation, arguing jurors may not have been unanimous on that count.
April 14, 2022
A Texas federal jury on Thursday handed a near complete loss to the U.S. Department of Justice in its first-ever criminal wage-fixing case, finding the former owner and the former clinical director of a physical therapist staffing company not guilty of orchestrating a wage-fixing scheme, but convicting the owner of obstructing the government's investigation of the allegations.
April 13, 2022
Attorneys for the former owner and former clinical director of a physical therapist staffing company implored a Texas federal jury Wednesday to acquit the men of charges they orchestrated a wage-fixing scheme, claiming prosecutors had coached the pair's alleged co-conspirator and misconstrued evidence to create the case.
April 11, 2022
A Texas federal judge says three U.S. Department of Justice antitrust attorneys cannot be forced to testify in an ongoing jury trial in the government's first-ever criminal wage-fixing case, ruling that the testimony being sought "is at the core" of the deliberative process and work-product privileges.
April 05, 2022
The owner and clinical director of a staffing company struck a deal with at least one competitor to fix the rates they paid physical therapists in order to maintain the company's value during a sale, prosecutors told a Texas federal jury Tuesday, kicking off the government's first criminal wage-fixing case.
March 28, 2022
A Texas federal court will not take another look at its decision rejecting a dismissal bid from one of the individuals charged in the government's first ever criminal wage-fixing case, who says he had a verbal non-prosecution agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice.
December 17, 2021
One of the first people to face federal criminal wage-fixing charges is asking a Texas federal judge to rethink his decision rejecting that the defendant had an oral nonprosecution agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice.