Innuendos always swirl when they play poorly, quicker to gather around them than their competitors, though cheating, and fixing, are universal problems.
"Bid rigging and price fixing are an absolute per se violation of antitrust laws," said John Coffee, a Columbia University specialist on securities law.
About half of the two dozen targets of the criminal inquiry into ticket fixing are officials with the police unions, a law enforcement official has said.
But now that case law is established, those attempting to combat the threat of fixing are hopeful that yesterday's convictions will stand as at least one positive legacy of the red top's existence.
Bid rigging and price fixing are the most serious accusations to arise thus far in the investigation because they are clearly defined antitrust violations that can also result in criminal charges, legal experts said.
I wondered: is that our company?" Roger Carr, Centrica's chair, answered: "Any allegations of price rigging, price fixing, are not [to do with] the company you own, that is not the ethos.
