The previous president, Brookes, resigned following a price-fixing scandal between Sotheby's and rival auctioneer Christie's.
A year later, the Archer Daniels Midland Company got caught up in a global price-fixing scandal.
The exorbitant expenses of the price-fixing scandal drained Sotheby's cash.
An account of the price-fixing scandal at Archer Daniels Midland in the 1990's.
In October the European Union fined the company another $20.1 million for the price-fixing scandal.
As the price-fixing scandal unfolded, he became the corporate face of Archer Daniels for institutional shareholders.
The price-fixing scandal arose in 1995, when Federal agents raided the company's headquarters in Decatur, Ill.
On 19 June 2008, Pratt was charged with lying about his knowledge of a price-fixing scandal.
Because while the price-fixing scandal is very real, almost everything else about Whitacre turns out to be a lie.
Sotheby's said that it was using the money from the building sale to pay off $100 million in loans and fines connected with the price-fixing scandal.