United States District Court Central District of Illinois Peoria Division
United States District Court Central District of Illinois Peoria Division
vs.
Judge: McDade
Defendant
Violation:
15 U.S.C. § 1
SUPERSEDING INFORMATION
I.
1. Prairie Farms Dairy, Inc. is hereby made a defendant on the charge stated below.
2. The defendant and others entered into and engaged in a combination and
conspiracy to suppress and eliminate competition by rigging bids submitted for the award and
performance of contracts to supply milk products to certain public schools in certain counties in
the Central District of Illinois, including but not necessarily limited to Lincoln Elementary
School District No. 27, Northwestern Community Unit School District No. 2, Washington
School District No. 52, and Illinois State University in Normal. The charged conspiracy began
at least as early as 1982 and continued to include contracts to provide milk products to school
districts for the 1989-1990 school year, the exact dates being unknown to the United States. The
combination and conspiracy, engaged in by the defendant and its co-conspirators in unreasonable
restraint of trade and commerce, violated Section 1 of the Sherman Act (15 U.S.C. § 1).
understanding, and concert of action among the defendant and its co-conspirators, the substantial
rigged bids to certain public schools for the supply of milk products to
4. For the purpose of forming and carrying out the charged combination and
conspiracy, the defendant and its co-conspirators did those things that they combined and
public schools;
II.
5. Defendant Prairie Farms Dairy, Inc. is a corporation organized and existing under
the laws of the State of Illinois with its corporate headquarters in Carlinville, Illinois. During
the period covered by this Superseding Information, Prairie Farms Dairy, Inc. was engaged in
the sale and distribution of dairy products in various locations within the State of Illinois and
elsewhere.
Information, participated as co-conspirators in the offense charged and performed acts and made
transaction of any corporation, the allegation means that the corporation engaged in the act,
representatives while they were actively engaged in the management, direction, control, or
III.
8. The business activities of the defendant and its co-conspirators that are the subject
of this Superseding Information were within the flow of, and substantially affected, interstate
purpose of helping to provide nutrition to children. The subsidized meals included dairy
products which are the subject of the conspiracy charged in this Superseding Information.
IV.
10. The combination and conspiracy charged in this Superseding Information was
carried out, at least in part, in the Central District of Illinois, and is not barred by the Statute of
Limitations.
________"/s/"_____________ _________"/s/"__________
ANNE K. BINGAMAN STEVEN E. UHR
Assistant Attorney General DIANE C. LOTKO-BAKER
Antitrust Division FRANK J. VONDRAK
MICHAEL W. BOOMGARDEN
________"/s/"____________ Attorneys
GARY R. SPRATLING Antitrust Division
U.S. Department of Justice
209 S. LaSalle Street, Suite 600
Chicago, Illinois 60604
(312) 353-7565
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JAMES M. GRIFFIN
Attorneys
Antitrust Division
U.S. Department of Justice