The former owner of contractor companies that provided fuel truck services to the U.S. Forest Service’s wildfire fighters pleaded guilty today to conspiring to monopolize, rigging bids and allocating territories in violation of Sections 1 and 2 of the Sherman Antitrust Act. The plea follows a judicially authorized wiretap investigation that led to the indictment
The Justice Department’s Antitrust Division, Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Department of Health and Human Services are extending the comment period for the Request for Information on Consolidation in Health Care Markets (RFI) by 30 days. The new deadline is June 5. In March, the agencies issued the RFI to understand how health care mergers
The Justice Department’s Antitrust Division today filed comments with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in support of efforts to lower prices and improve the quality of incarcerated people’s communications services (IPCS). “Telephone services are a lifeline between incarcerated people and the outside world,” said Assistant Attorney General Jonathan Kanter of the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division.
The Justice Department’s Antitrust Division and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) today jointly submitted a public comment to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) urging it to consider the competitive risks of common ownership when assessing acquisitions involving less than a controlling interest in competing firms. As the Justice Department and FTC’s joint comment explains, competition
TopBuild Corp. announced its decision today to abandon its proposed $960 million acquisition of its rival, SPI Parent Holding Company (SPI). The abandonment comes after the department’s competition concerns. The Justice Department issued the following statement from Assistant Attorney General Jonathan Kanter of the Antitrust Division: “TopBuild’s proposed acquisition of SPI would have harmed competition
