Pilgrim’s Ex-CEOs Win Civil Deposition Delay for Criminal Trial

Two indicted former Pilgrim’s Pride Corp. chief executives, facing a criminal antitrust trial set to start Oct. 25 over their alleged role in an industrywide price-fixing scheme, persuaded a federal magistrate in Oklahoma to put their civil depositions on hold until the trial ends in December.

Magistrate Judge Cecilia M. Romero let Jayson Penn and William Lovette intervene Wednesday in a proposed class action accusing top poultry processors of colluding to drive down compensation for chicken farmers until they’re permanently indebted “modern-day sharecroppers.”

Romero granted their request to postpone their depositions until Dec. 30—about a week after the trial is ...