Pilgrim’s Ex-Execs’ Charges Dropped in End to DOJ Chicken Probe (2)

The Justice Department moved to dismiss its antitrust case against two former Pilgrim’s Pride executives, the final defendants in its long-running but mostly unsuccessful bid to take on alleged price fixing in the broiler chicken industry.

The DOJ antitrust division’s dismissal of its criminal case against Jason McGuire and Timothy Stiller, in a filing Sunday in the US District Court for the District of Colorado, follows a judge’s order excluding all of the government’s 294 exhibits of co-conspirator evidence from the record.

The voluntary dismissal marks the apparent end of the government’s attempt to address alleged price-fixing in the chicken ...