The United States government indicted six more leaders in the poultry industry for allegedly inflating broiler chicken prices from 2012 to 2019. That’s according to court documents filed last week. The indictments came after a lawsuit was filed accusing poultry processors of price fixing in the market. Back in June, four executives were indicted with the first round of charges, including Pilgrim’s Pride Chief Executive Jayson Penn. In the most recent indictment, one of the accused is sales executive, Timothy Mulrenin.
No word on where things go from here, but all of the companies involved in the scandal deny any wrongdoing.
