Sentence examples for price fixing scheme from inspiring English sources

He has already agreed to contribute $156 million of his own money to Sotheby's $256 million share of the settlement reached in a class-action suit brought by clients who did business with both Sotheby's and Christie' s during the six years that the price fixing scheme was allegedly in place.

The companies -- Bitburger, Krombacher, Veltins, Warsteiner and Barre -- have been ordered to pay a combined 106.5 million euros (about $145.5 million), along with seven people "personally involved" in the price fixing scheme, according to a statement from the Federal Cartel Office.

Is it evidence that Ms. Pillard knew she was involved in a price-fixing scheme?

The authorities did not charge any United Nations officials with participating in the price-fixing scheme.

Mr. Taubman, who was convicted of leading a price-fixing scheme, served time in a U.S. federal prison.

Antitrust law permits the imposition of a maximum fine of $10 million, or twice the gain or loss caused by a price-fixing scheme.

By James Surowiecki In 1960, the Department of Justice indicted executives from several companies for involvement in a huge price-fixing scheme across much of the electrical industry.

Three former executives at the insurance brokerage firm Marsh were acquitted on Monday of criminal charges in a bid-rigging and price-fixing scheme.

He concluded at the end of the government's case that prosecutors did not have enough evidence to prove a price-fixing scheme.

PAGE B1 Probation in Sotheby's Case The former chief executive of Sotheby's received probation for her role in a price-fixing scheme.

In Mr. Soderbergh's acerbic character study "The Informant!" (now in theaters), Mr. Damon transforms himself into a doughy, delusional executive who exposes an agribusiness price-fixing scheme.