Micron Seeking Amnesty in DoJ Antitrust Probe?

Posted by CowboyNeal on Friday January 2, 2004 @01:05AM from the playing-nice dept.

deaddeng writes "Memory maker Micron Technology is allegedly seeking amnesty from a US Dept. of Justice grand jury investigation of price fixing, collusion, and antitrust by the memory industry, according to numerous news services, including the LA Times and Reuters. Last week, a Micron regional marketing employee pled guilty to charges brought under the same DoJ investigation for destruction of evidence and lying to the grand jury. The DoJ is investigating charges that major memory makers colluded to prevent the success of Rambus memory favored by Intel, and once that was achieved, colluded again to raise prices for DDR-SDRAM in 2001-02. If Micron is granted amnesty, it can keep its executives from facing criminal prosecution, but it may still face civil court challenges."

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Re:Don't be fooled. by kfg · 2004-01-02 02:23 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Try not to simplify things so much.

Please note that I was responding satirically to a post that was so simplfied in outlook as to be braindead. Which was probably its intent.

KFG
Re:Don't be fooled. by kfg · 2004-01-02 03:24 · Score: 0, Offtopic

You assume I have a house, car and income.

I do no such thing.

KFG
Re:Don't be fooled. by gantrep · 2004-01-02 03:31 · Score: 0, Offtopic

noted.