In a sweep of more than 700 supermarkets across the city, inspectors from the Department of Consumer Affairs found pricing violations in more than half of them, the agency announced on Wednesday.
The Parks Department, which sends out inspectors and undercover agents to check the nearly 300 vendors in city parks for pricing violations, has found that most offenders are in Central Park and Battery Park, two places where tourists congregate.
Generally speaking, consumers must trust online retailers not to exploit the websites through unscrupulous strategies such as unfair pricing, violations of privacy, and security or misrepresentation of information.
Executives from Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, England, France, Switzerland, Italy, Canada, Mexico, Japan, and Korea have been convicted, fined, and in some cases jailed for price-fixing violations.
They were charged with defrauding consumers by raising the prices in violation of state law.
The Justice Department is trying to block Oracle's $7.7 hostile bid for PeopleSoft, saying it would curb competition and raise prices in violation of antitrust laws.
NASD said the firms bought bonds from customers that were later resold by other dealers at "markedly higher prices," in violation of Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board rules.
A jury in New York returned the verdict Thursday after a group of American companies accused the Chinese producers of acting in concert to raise prices in violation of United States antitrust laws.
US district judge Denise Cote ruled on Wednesday that the company played a "central role" in a conspiracy with the biggest book publishers in the US to fix prices in violation of antitrust law.
Last May, in a class-action suit by consumers accusing local telephone companies of a conspiracy to raise prices – in violation of antitrust laws – the court described a standard for civil complaints that defense lawyers describe as a strong new barrier to lawsuits.
