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Comment: US DOJ’s defeat in chicken price-fixing trial delivers blow to leniency program

By Khushita Vasant
  • 11 Jul 2022 23:13
  • 11 Jul 2022 23:13
The acquittal of five chicken industry executives by a jury in a price-fixing trial — the third failed attempt by the US Department of Justice to secure convictions — doesn’t bode well for the agency’s leniency program.
“One of the motivators for defendants to plead guilty is the belief that

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Khushita Vasant

Chief Antitrust Correspondent, US


Khushita covers US antitrust enforcement and litigation for MLex. A former Brussels hand, she wrote about about antitrust & mergers for the Policy and Regulatory Report (PaRR), she has covered the EU's actions against Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon to name a few. Khushita specialises in tech and patent policy coverage which featured in the Concurrences Antitrust Writing Awards. Previously as a financial journalist for The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires, she wrote about monetary policy and the bond and currency markets. Khushita studied journalism at Mumbai University, and received an Erasmus Mundus scholarship for a masters from universities in Germany and Austria.

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