The United States has indicted six more chicken-industry executives over alleged price-fixing, broadening antitrust prosecutions in its probe into whether companies conspired to increase prices..
In June, the Justice Department indicted Pilgrim’s Pride’s chief executive officer Jayson Penn and three others in its first charges in the criminal probe
Court documents filed Tuesday show former Pilgrim’s Pride chief executive officer William Lovette has also been charged as well as well as sales executive Timothy Mulrenin.
JBS of Brazil owns Pilgrim’s Pride.
