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DoJ Opens Criminal Probe Into Meatpacking Cartel As Food Stocks Slide
DoJ Opens Criminal Probe Into Meatpacking Cartel As Food Stocks Slide
Shares of Tyson Foods and Smithfield Foods fell in late-morning trading in New York after The Wall Street Journal reported that the Justice Department's antitrust division has opened a criminal probe into major meatpackers.
The report follows President Trump's push for an investigation into meatpackers as supermarket beef prices remain near record highs.
Criminal antitrust cases are typically brought for alleged price-fixing, collusion, or bid-rigging. While the DoJ previously disclosed an investigation into beef companies after Trump called for action, it...
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'Shadow Government' FBI Official Got Advance Word Of NBC's Hunter Laptop 'Foreign Op' Story, Complaint Shows
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Nikki Floris, then-head of the FBI's Foreign Influence Task Force, tipped off bureau leadership that NBC News was about to report the FBI was probing whether Hunter Biden's laptop was tied to a foreign intelligence operation, according to a criminal complaint unsealed against her. At the time, the bureau had already held the laptop's contents for ten months.
Hunter Biden and former FBI official Nikki Floris. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh; AP Photo/Eric Thayer via Fox News)
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