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U.S. v. Dwayne A. Johnson
On February 15, Dwayne Johnson, a former salesman for two digital interactive whiteboard companies pleaded guilty to orchestrating a bid rigging conspiracy involving the sales of certain brands of digital interactive whiteboards that were made to the New York City Department of Education for use in New York City public schools.
United States v. Vaccaro et al. and United States v. Eli Taieb
The US Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Ohio alleges that between January 1, 2014 – July 19, 2019 Defendants obtained millions of shares in certain public companies at little or no cost and then profited by selling those shares to investors at fraudulent and artificially inflated prices without disclosing their control of those shares or relationship with the companies.
U.S. v. Carlos Favian Martinez, et al.
According to the indictment, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas, Carlos Favian Martinez, 36, of Mission, Texas; Marco Antonio Medina, 32, of Brownsville, Texas; Rigoberto Brown, 38, of Brownsville, Texas; Pedro Antonio Calvillo Hernandez, 47, of Tamaulipas, Mexico; Roberto Garcia Villareal, 56, of San Benito, Texas; Miguel Hipolito Caballero Aupart, 70, of Brownsville, Texas; Sandra Guerra Medina, 68, of Rancho Viejo, Texas; and Mireya Miranda, 56, of La Feria, Texas, conspired to fix prices and allocate the market for transmigrante services in violation of Section 1 of the Sherman Act. They also allegedly conspired to monopolize the same market in violation of Section 2 of the Sherman Act. The indictment alleges they implemented price-fixing agreements and created a centralized entity known as “The Pool” to collect and divide revenues among the conspirators. Transmigrantes are individuals who transport used vehicles and other goods from the United States through Mexico for resale in Central America. Transmigrante forwarding agencies are businesses that provide services to transmigrante clients, including helping those clients complete the customs paperwork required to export vehicles into Mexico.
U.S. v. ASSA ABLOY AB, and Spectrum Brand Holdings, Inc.
Chase Manufacturing Inc. v. Johns Manville Corporation
U.S. v. Bill R. Miller
U.S. v. Nathan Nephi Zito
Dru Choker, D.V.M. and Matthew DeMarco, D.V.M. v. Pet Emergency Clinic, P.S. and National Veterinary Associates, Inc.
U.S. v. Benjamin W. McCulloch
Benjamin McCulloch, the owner of a commercial flooring company, pleaded guilty to a five-count criminal information in September 2022, charging him with four counts of violating the anti-kickback act and one count of conspiracy. McCulloch pleaded guilty to conspiring with a project manager, Kevin Mahler, to pay kickbacks flowing from artificially inflated construction proposals. This scheme affected government contracts for construction and flooring services at Fort Wainwright, a U.S. Army installation in Fairbanks, Alaska.