July 13, 2022
A former Pilgrim's Pride executive facing criminal price-fixing charges has been hit with additional charges for allegedly intimidating a witness during the investigation and destroying evidence.
March 02, 2022
A quartet of former Pilgrim's Pride executives asked a Colorado federal judge Tuesday to reschedule their criminal price-fixing trial, citing the burden of parsing almost 16 million documents and the disruption of the trial against 10 other former broiler chicken executives currently in front of a jury.
February 10, 2022
U.S. Department of Justice prosecutors urged a Colorado federal judge Wednesday not to expedite the motion to dismiss briefing from a former Pilgrim's Pride executive indicted for allegedly participating in an industrywide conspiracy to fix broiler chicken prices.
February 07, 2022
A former Pilgrim's Pride executive indicted for allegedly participating in an industry-wide conspiracy to fix broiler chicken prices told a Colorado federal court Monday the government waited too long to bring the criminal antitrust charge against him.
July 29, 2021
Grand juries in Denver have charged Koch Foods and several former Pilgrim's Pride executives with criminal charges as part of an ongoing investigation of an alleged price-fixing conspiracy in the broiler chicken industry, the U.S. Department of Justice said Thursday.