The United States federal government probe has extended its 3 year long criminal investigation into the pricing practices of industry specific multi-billion dollar companies as corporate members of the alleged pricing conspiracy begin to make deals on a national and sometimes global level.
Defense lawyers at BLF represent one company that has been caught in the government's wide net, cast in an effort to root out alleged players in the purported conspiracy.
Other countries may be following suit. The difficulty of such cases lies in the tangled network of cross-border prosecutions and collateral consequences that any admission of guilt on the U.S. federal level can have on current or pending investigations internationally. Many of the alleged conspirators may be forced to consider a global settlement of all claims or criminal investigations with respect to prosecutorial or regulatory authorities.
It is purported that the entire industry has been hauled into the federal investigation without probable cause to substantiate a claim as to many of the entities.
