Press Releases
Press releases issued by the Antitrust Division from 1979 through 2008 are found in this section of the site.
To find releases published beginning in 2009, please visit the Antitrust Division Press Releases page.
1998 Press Releases
December
December 30, 1998
Justice Department Settles Merger Lawsuit with Waste
Management and Eastern Environmental Services
Justice Department Approves AT&T's Merger with TCI
After Companies Agree to Divestiture
December 23, 1998
Justice Department Approves Proposal by Association of
Independent Corrugated Converters to Allow Joint Selling by its Members
Justice Department Consents to Termination of British
Telecom/MCI Consent Decree
December 18, 1998
Justice Department Moves to End Exclusive Agreement Between IBM and Storagetek in Mainframe Computer Disk Storage Subsystem Products
December 17, 1998
Justice Department Approves Joint Licensing of Patents
Essential for Making DVD-Video and DVD-ROM Discs and Players
December 3, 1998
Manhattan Executive Charged with Tax Evasion in
Kickback Scheme
November
November 30, 1998
Justice Department Reaches Agreement with City Holding
Company and Horizon Bancorp Inc. for West Virginia Divestitures
Justice Department Approves Monsanto's Acquisition of
DeKalb Genetics Corporation
November 25, 1998
Justice Department Approves Chancellor Media
Corporation's Acquisition of Whiteco Industries' Outdoor Advertising Assets
November 23, 1998
Justice Department Approves Pearson's Purchase of
Viacom Publishing Businesses
November 17, 1998
Justice Department Files suit to Block Waste
Management's Acquisition of Eastern Environmental Services
Texas Company Charged with Rigging Bids on School
Bread Contracts
November 12, 1998
Justice Department Approves Chancellor Media
Corporation's Acquisition of Kunz & Company's Outdoor Advertising Assets
November 10, 1998
Justice Department Sues Three Firms over FCC Auction
Practices
November 4, 1998
Statement by Assistant Attorney General Joel Klein on
Bender v. West Decision
October
October 23, 1998
Justice Department Files Suit to Block Northwest Airlines'
Takeover of Continental Airlines
October 21, 1998
Houston Executive Charged with Price Fixing on Metal
Building Insulation
October 19, 1998
Individual Charged with Criminal Contempt for Failing to
Appear Before Grand Jury
October 14, 1998
Joel Klein Statement Regarding Primestar Abandoning Deal
to
Acquire News Corp./MCI's Direct Broadcast Satellite Assets
October 13, 1998
Justice Department Approves Norwest/Wells Fargo Merger
After Parties Agree to $1.18 Billion Divestiture
October 9, 1998
Justice Department Reaches Agreement with U.S. Bancorp
for
Clark County, Washington Divestiture
October 7, 1998
Remarks of
Attorney General Janet Reno on DOJ Case Against VISA and Mastercard
Remarks of Assistant Attorney
General Joel I. Klein on DOJ Case Against Visa and Mastercard
Justice Department Files Antitrust Suit Against Visa and
Mastercard for Limiting Competition in Credit Card Network Market
October 2, 1998
Justice Department Approves Lamar Advertising
Company's Acquisition of Outdoor Communications Inc.'s Billboard Assets
September
September 30, 1998
Wilbur-Ellis Company Agrees to Plead Guilty to Criminal
Contempt
Eastman Chemical Company Agrees to Plead Guilty to
Price Fixing Charges and Pay $11 Million Criminal Fine
Texas Company Charged with Fixing Prices of Automotive
Replacement Glass
September 29, 1998
Halliburton Co. Agrees to Sell Part of its Worldwide Oil
Field
Services Business and its Drilling Fluids Business in Order to Proceed with Dresser
Industries
Merger
September 24, 1998
Talleyrand Broadcasting Abandons Effort to Acquire Radio
Stations from Citadel Broadcasting
September 23, 1998
25 New York Real Estate Brokers Plead Guilty to Rigging
Bids at Queens County Courthouse Foreclosure Auctions
Department of Justice Blocks Medical Mutual of Ohio's Use
of
Anti-Discounting Clauses in Hospital Contracts in the Cleveland Area
September 17, 1998
Jury Finds Former Top ADM Executives Guilty of Price
Fixing
September 15, 1998
Justice Department Will Not Challenge Merger of Physician
Organization in Pennsylvania
September 8, 1998
Justice Department Approves Banc One / First Chicago Bank Merger after Parties
Agree to
$1.47 Billion Divestiture in Indiana
September 4, 1998
Justice Department Allows Joint Purchasing of Electric
Power by
Textile Manufacturers
September 2, 1998
Capstar Broadcasting Partners Abandons Acquisition of
KATQ
Radio in Texarkana, Texas After Justice Department Expresses Antitrust Concerns
Ammunition Company Charged with Bid Rigging
August
August 27, 1998
Texas Company Charged with Fixing Prices of Automotive
Replacement Glass
August 20, 1998
Long Island, New York Printing Company Charged with Rigging Bids on Display Contracts to Lorillard Tobacco Co.
August 19, 1998
Justice Recommends FCC Deny Bellsouth's
Second Long Distance Application in Louisiana
August 14, 1998
Justice Department Clears NationsBank/BankAmerica Merger After Parties Agree to $491.6 Million Divesture in New Mexico
Justice Department Approves Plan by
National Association of Manufacturers to Set up Plan to Resolve Year 2000
Issues
August 13, 1998
Two Northern Virginia Real Estate Spectators Indicted in Bid-Rigging Scam
August 12, 1998
Justice Department Moves to Stop Illegal
Boycott by the Federation of Physicians and Dentists on Behalf of Delaware Orthopedic
Surgeons
August 11, 1998
Justice Department Approves Dairy Merger After Parties Agree to Sell Plant in Alabama
August 10, 1998
Justice Department Requires Jacor to Sell Eight Radio Stations as Part of Nationwide Communications Inc. Acquisition
July
July 27, 1998
Justice Department Sues to Block Citicorp's Acquisition of Transactive Corporation Assets
July 24, 1998
Justice Department Charges Michigan Company and Executive With Rigging Bids to General Motors
July 16, 1998
Justice Department And City of Stilwell, Oklahoma Settle Antitrust Suit
Justice Department and Thirteen States Clear USA Waste Services
Inc.'s Acquisition of Waste Management Inc.
Statement of Joel I. Klein, Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust, on the Abandonment of the Lockheed-Northrop Transaction
July 15, 1998
Justice Department Clears WorldCom/MCI Merger After MCI Agrees To Sell Its Internet Business
July 14, 1998
Justice Department Settles Antitrust Suit With General Electric; Eliminates Restrictive Service Equipment Agreements
July 8, 1998
American Airlines Cleared to Acquire Stock
in Argentine Airline
July 1, 1998
Justice Department Approves Plan By Security Industry Firms To Exchange Information About Resolving the Year 2000 Computer Issue
June
June 23, 1998
Dutch Company Charged With Price-Fixing on
Citric Acid: Agrees to Pay $400,000 Criminal Fine
Statement Issued By The Department of Justice After the U.S. Court of Appeals' Decision in the Microsoft
Consent Decree Case
June 15, 1998
Justice Department Clears Alcoa's Proposed
Acquisition of Alumax After Alcoa Agrees to Sell Its Cast Plate Operations
June 11, 1998
Justice Department Clears Environmental
Monitoring Equipment Merger After Deal Is Restructured
June 8, 1998
Capstar Terminates Contract to Acquire
Radio Station in Cedar
Rapids, Iowa to Alleviate Antitrust Concerns
June 4, 1998
U.S. and European Communities Sign
Antitrust Cooperation
Agreement
June 3, 1998
Justice Department Issues 1997 Annual
Supplement to the "Digest of Business Reviews"
May
May 28, 1998
Sinclair Broadcast Group Gets Justice
Department Approval to Buy
New Orleans Radio Stations After Agreeing to Sell Three
Stations
May 21, 1998
Milton Handler Receives the Antitrust
Division's John Sherman
Award
Justice Department Charges Texas Company With Conspiring to Allocate Customers and Territories in Distributing Magazines
Justice Department Has Major Competitive Concerns With American Airlines and British Airways Alliance
May 18, 1998
Justice Department Files Antitrust Suit Against Microsoft for Unlawfully Monopolizing Computer Software Markets
May 14, 1998
Statement by Assistant Attorney General
Joel I. Klein on Filing of
Antitrust Suit Against Microsoft
Statement of the Justice Department Regarding Microsoft
May 12, 1998
Justice Department Sues to Block Primestar's Acquisition of News Corp./MCI's Direct Broadcast Satellite Assets
May 7, 1998
Two Former Purchasing Agents at
Warner-Lambert are Charged in
Connection with
Kickback Scheme
May 6, 1998
DOJ and Texas Attorney General Clear USA Waste/TransAmerican Merger After Parties Agree to Divest Houston Assets
May 4, 1998
DOJ Charges Cajun Chemical Inc. With Conspiring to Rig Bids on Janitorial Chemical Contracts
Justice Department Reaches Agreement With Banc One For $614 Million Divestiture in Louisiana
April
April 27, 1998
Justice Department Agrees to Changes to 1979 Coffee, Sugar & Cocoa Exchange Consent Decree
April 16, 1998
Loews Theatres and Cineplex Odeon Corporation Agree to Divest Movie Theaters in Manhattan and Chicago as a Condition of Allowing Merger to Proceed
April 10, 1998
Justice Department Approves First Union/CoreStates Merger After Parties Agree to $1.1 Billion Divestiture in Pennsylvania
April 7, 1998
U.S. Company Agrees to Pay $110 Million Fine for International Conspiracy
April 1, 1998
Justice Department Approves Clear Channel Communications Inc.'s Acquisition of Universal Outdoor Holdings Inc.
March
March 31, 1998
Chancellor Media Corporation Abandons Bid to Acquire Long Island Radio Stations After Justice Department Challenge
Justice Department Requires Capstar to Sell Eleven Radio Stations as Part of SFX Acquisition
Justice Department Requires CBS To Sell Seven Radio Stations as Part of American Radio Systems Acquisition
Kentucky Funeral Home Operator To Pay $500,000 in Civil Penalties
March 25, 1998
Justice Department Allows Sharing of Information to Facilitate Joint Operation of Wireless Communication Antenna Sites
March 23, 1998
Justice Department Goes to Court To Block
Lockheed Martin's
Purchase of
Northrop Grumman: Merger Is Single Largest Ever Challenged
March 20, 1998
Justice Department Will Not Challenge Proposed Changes to American Heart Association Pharmaceutical Roundtable
March 12, 1998
Justice Department Allows Creation of Joint Venture of Providers of Armored Car Services
Former President of
American Subsidiary of World's No.2 Liquor Company Pleads Guilty
to Embezzlement and Kickback Conspiracy. Admits Conspiring With
Other Executives to Embezzle Over $13 Million
March 11, 1998
DOJ, FTC and States Announce Protocol for
Cooperation on Merger Investigations
Antitrust Division Announces New Special
Counsel
Antitrust Division
Names Special Counsel for Information Technology
March 9, 1998
Justice Department Approves Peoples Heritage's Purchase of CFX After Parties Agree to Divestitures in New Hampshire
Justice Department Requires Enova
Corporation to Divest
Electricity
Plants Before Approving its $6 Billion Merger with Pacific
Enterprises
March 6, 1998
DOJ Urges SEC to Increase Competition for
Securities Ratings Agencies
March 4, 1998
Rochester Gas & Electric Agrees to Settle
Antitrust Suit
March 3, 1998
Haynes Holdings, Inc. Abandons
Acquisition of Inco Alloys
International After Justice Department
Announces Intention to Challenge
February
February 27, 1998
Justice Department Urges Surface Transportation
Board to Impose Conditions on CSX/Norfolk Southern Acquisition of Conrail
February 25, 1998
Japanese Chemical Giant to Pay $20 Million Fine
February 23, 1998
Japanese Subsidiary Charged With International
Conspiracy to Fix Prices for Graphite Electrodes in U.S.
February 19, 1998
Justice Department Reaches Settlement With New
York and Missouri Companies to Prevent Collusive Practices
February 13, 1998
"No Monopoly on Antitrust": Op. Ed. in Financial
Times by Joel Klein
February 3, 1998
Justice Department Allows Creation and Operation
of a Trade Association to Promote the Usage of On-Line Travel Services
January
January 30, 1998
Justice Department Allows Electric Power
Joint Venture to Change
Method of Bidding
in Newly-Deregulated Market Environment
January 28, 1998
Justice Department Approves Capstar Broadcasting
Partners' Acquisition of Patterson Broadcasting
January 22, 1998
DOJ-Microsoft Settle Contempt Claim
Statement of Assistant Attorney General Joel I. Klein on the Microsoft Settlement
January 15, 1998
Justice Department Clears Merger Between PerSeptive BioSystems and Perkin-Elmer After Parties Agree to Divest Technology to NeXstar Pharmaceuticals
January 8, 1998
Justice Department Allows Creation of New Wholesaling and Distribution Entity for Industrial Products
