Exhibit 626 · Press release
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)
Pilgrim’s is the first company to plead guilty for its role in a conspiracy to fix prices and rig bids for broiler chicken products.
Pilgrim's Pride pleaded guilty in D. Colo. and was sentenced to a criminal fine of $107,923,572 for a conspiracy "from as early as 2012 and continuing at least into 2017" affecting at least $361 million in its sales. Ten executives and employees at broiler producers had been charged.
- Source
- DOJ Antitrust Division
- Date
- 23 February 2021
- Quoted from
- Paragraph beginning "Pilgrim’s is the first company"
- Grade
- Primary record
- Document
- https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/one-nation-s-largest-chicken-producers-pleads-guilty-price-fixing-and-sentenced-107-million
- Accessed
- 2026-11-09
- Cited by
- Findings citing this exhibit