Exhibit 1237 ยท Plea agreement (court filing)
Plea Agreement, United States v. Pilgrim's Pride Corporation, No. 1:20-cr-00330-RM (D. Colo.), Document 58
through at least one of its current and/or former employees, defendant participated in a conspiracy with at least one competitor engaged in the production and sale of broiler chicken products to suppress and eliminate competition by rigging bids and fixing prices and other price-related terms for certain broiler chicken products sold in the United States.
Pilgrim's Pride agrees to plead guilty to a one-count Information charging a Sherman Act conspiracy to rig bids and fix prices for broiler chicken products. The factual basis states the conspiracy affected sales to KFC totaling at least $361 million in the period from at least as early as 2012 through at least early 2017.
- Source
- United States District Court for the District of Colorado (filed by the Antitrust Division and Pilgrim's Pride Corporation)
- Date
- 23 February 2021
- Quoted from
- Paragraph 4(b), p. 4 of 25 (Factual Basis for Offense Charged, introduced 'Had this case gone to trial, the United States would have presented evidence sufficient to prove the following facts')
- Grade
- Primary record
- Document
- https://www.justice.gov/media/1129061/dl
- Accessed
- 2026-11-10
- Cited by
- Findings citing this exhibit
- Note
- Primary document behind the press release already registered as doj-2021-pilgrims-pride-plea. The plea covers one company and conspiracy with at least one competitor. Finding AGR-5.4 records that individual defendants in the DOJ broiler cases were acquitted in jury trials.