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US DOJ secures criminal guilty plea in Section 2 monopolization case

By Michael Acton
  • 31 Oct 2022 18:33
  • 31 Oct 2022 19:17
The US Department of Justice has secured a guilty plea for criminal attempted monopolization from a Montana paving and asphalt contractor – the first such case to be successfully litigated by the DOJ's antitrust division in decades.
The DOJ announced today that company president Nathan Nephi Zito pleaded guilty to

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Michael Acton

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Michael is a senior correspondent for MLex in San Francisco, where he moved in 2020 after working in our Brussels bureau. Before joining MLex, he reported on EU politics as the Financial Times’ Nico Colchester Fellow in Brussels. Michael has a degree in International Relations and Politics from the University of Cambridge, and a degree in History and French from University College London and Paris IV Sorbonne.

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