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U.S. and Plaintiff States v. Live Nation Entertainment, Inc and Ticketmaster L.L.C.
Complaint (May 23, 2024)
U.S and Plaintiff States v. Apple Inc.
U.S. v. Stanley Mark Smith
U.S. v. Kevin Mahler
Kevin Mahler, a project manager at a government contractor, pleaded guilty to a six-count criminal information in January 2024 charging him with four counts of violating the anti-kickback act, one count of conspiracy, and one count of filing a false tax return. Mahler pleaded guilty to conspiring with Benjamin McCulloch, the owner of a commercial flooring company, to receive kickbacks flowing from artificially inflated construction proposals. This scheme affected government contracts for construction and flooring services at Fort Wainwright, a U.S. Army installation in Fairbanks, Alaska.
U.S. v. Asphalt Specialists LLC
U.S. v. Al’s Asphalt Paving Company, Inc. and Edward D. Swanson
Al’s Asphalt Paving Company, Inc. and Edward D. Swanson pleaded guilty to two counts of entering into and engaging in a combination and conspiracy to suppress and eliminate competition by agreeing to rig bids for contracts to provide asphalt paving services in the State of Michigan. Count One charged a conspiracy that began at least as early as March 2013 and continued until at least as late as November 2018. Count Two charged a separate conspiracy that began at least as early as June 2013 and continued until at least as late as June 2019.
U.S. v. Ike Tomlinson and Kris Bird
Following a court-authorized wiretap investigation, a federal grand jury in Boise, Idaho, returned an indictment in December 2023 charging two executives of competing companies with conspiring to rig bids and allocate territories in violation of the Sherman Act, conspiring to commit wire fraud and committing wire fraud. According to the seven-count felony indictment, Ike Tomlinson and Kris Bird’s conspiracy affected contracts for forest-firefighting services.
U.S. v. Roy Henry Heinrich
U.S. v. Bruce F. Israel
Bruce F. Israel pleaded guilty to two counts of entering into and engaging in a combination and conspiracy to suppress and eliminate competition by agreeing to rig bids for contracts to provide asphalt paving services in the State of Michigan. Count One charged a conspiracy that began at least as early as March 2013 and continued until at least as late as November 2018. Count Two charged a separate conspiracy that began at least as early as July 2017 and continued until at least as late as May 2021.
U.S. v. Koch Foods Incorporated
U.S. v. Pro-Mark Services, Inc.
On October 30, 2023, the Department of Justice, Antitrust Division, and the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of North Dakota entered into a non-prosecution agreement (“NPA”) with Pro-Mark Services, Inc. Between 2008 and 2020, Pro-Mark’s former owners executed a scheme to obtain government set-aside construction contracts for the company, amounting to approximately $70 million in federal contracts being awarded, despite Pro-Mark not being eligible to compete for these contracts. The former owners then cashed out of company, selling it to Pro-Mark’s employees via an employee stock ownership plan (“ESOP”) transaction. The NPA requires the company to pay a penalty of $949,000 and to continue implementing a compliance and ethics program.
U.S. v. Ryan Ashley Sullivan
Plea Agreement (November 6, 2023)
Information (October 25, 2023)