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Company

Pilgrim's Pride Corporation (about 83 percent owned by JBS S.A.)

Documented money flows

Findings that rest on exhibits naming this entity

  • AGR-5.4: Pilgrim's Pride pleaded guilty to a conspiracy to fix prices and rig bids for broiler chicken products and was sentenced to a criminal fine of $107,923,572 on February 23, 2021. ERS reports that individual defendants in the DOJ broiler cases were acquitted in jury trials. Tyson's filing states that the first civil broiler antitrust jury trial ended in a verdict for the defendants.
  • AGR-5.5: Tyson has agreed to class settlements of $221.5 million in the broiler case, $183 million in the pork case and $182 million in the beef case, and states that it does not admit liability. JBS USA settled three beef classes for $161.0 million and three pork classes for $57.3 million, and Pilgrim's Pride settled three broiler classes for $195.5 million.
  • AGR-5.9: The filings cited record no court decision on whether the largest beef packers fixed prices or manipulated cattle prices.

Exhibits naming this entity

  • Exhibit 626 23 February 2021. DOJ Antitrust Division: One of the Nation's Largest Chicken Producers Pleads Guilty to Price Fixing and is Sentenced to a $107 Million Criminal Fine (Press Release 21-172)
  • Exhibit 630 26 March 2025. JBS S.A. (SEC filing): JBS S.A., Form 20-F for the fiscal year ended 31 December 2024 (Legal proceedings: Broiler, Pork and Beef Antitrust Litigation)
  • Exhibit 1237 23 February 2021. United States District Court for the District of Colorado (filed by the Antitrust Division and Pilgrim's Pride Corporation): Plea Agreement, United States v. Pilgrim's Pride Corporation, No. 1:20-cr-00330-RM (D. Colo.), Document 58