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DOJ Asks High Court To Review Nixed Bid-Rigging Conviction

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Supreme Court to review the overturning of a former Contech executive's bid-rigging conviction, saying the appeals court was wrong to focus on a supplier relationship between companies that also compete for contracts. Department of Justice has asked the U.S.

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Food Supplier Can't Shake Off $5M DOD Bid-Rigging Claim

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Department of Defense agency's efforts to recoup the purported $5 million lost to an ex-employee's bid-rigging scheme, after a contract appeals board ruled the contractor was required to provide fair, unrigged prices. A food supplier must face a U.S.

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Denver Airport Bid-Rigging Suit Ends After 1st Day Of Trial

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A nearly seven-year-old litigation battle over allegations of bid-rigging in the award of a lucrative Denver International Airport concessions contract suddenly ended this week when the parties agreed to dismiss the suit after the first day of trial.

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Forest Service Firefighter Fuel Cos. Charged With Bid-Rigging

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Department of Justice announced Idaho federal court criminal fraud and antitrust charges Friday against a pair of fuel truck operators accused of rigging bids for U.S. Forest Service firefighting service contracts, in an indictment full of wiretap-gleaned receipts of plans against competitors to "drown these b **s out."

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DOJ Says Court Rehab Means Ga. Bid Rig Case Must Move

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Construction at Savannah, Georgia's federal courthouse means that three men accused of conspiring to rig bids for millions of dollars' worth of ready-mix concrete contracts will have to be tried in a college town a couple of counties over, according to the DOJ.

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Gov't Contractors Sentenced In $8M Bid-Rigging Scheme

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A Georgia federal judge has sentenced two military contractors for using false bids to secure Pentagon contracts worth almost $8 million, a month after a co-conspirator was hit with a four-month sentence, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Monday.

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Highway Contractor, Exec Charged With $100M Price-Fixing

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Federal prosecutors on Thursday announced the indictment of an Oklahoma highway runoff contracting business and two of its employees for their involvement in a price-fixing, bid-rigging and market allocation conspiracy that impacted over $100 million in publicly funded construction contracts in the state.