Executives in most price-fixing cases are indemnified by their companies, and so can afford to hire the best criminal lawyers.

He also said he had no bias in the continuing price-fixing case.

Using those tapes as evidence, the Government has been able to secure guilty pleas in price-fixing cases against eight companies and six executives.

"This could be the beginning of the unraveling of the price-fixing case."

Most price-fixing cases, however, are filed against manufacturers who are at least two steps removed in the chain of distribution from the consumer.

Consider that there never have been price-fixing antitrust cases of any significance against lawyers.

In 1996, lysine became the focus of a price-fixing case, the largest in United States history.

From 1964 to 1966, he won more than $61 million in damages, mostly for clients challenging big companies in price-fixing cases.

Under the Reagan Administration, the act was used primarily for small price-fixing cases.

It has, for example, brought a number of major price-fixing cases and initiated many important international cartel investigations.