JUST IN: Jury acquits DaVita, ex-CEO Kent Thiry on all counts in landmark antitrust trial
A federal jury acquitted Denver-based DaVita Inc. and its former CEO Kent Thiry of all charges Friday, a resounding defeat for the government prosecutors who had targeted the dialysis giant’s agreements with rival companies to not poach employees in an unprecedented criminal conspiracy case.
on how the 132-year-old Sherman Anti-Trust Act is used to regulate free competition in the United States. “Congratulations to the defendants, condolences to the government,” U.S. District Senior Judge R. Brooke Jackson said once the jury was dismissed.drew widespread attention as the first time a top executive and company were criminally charged for non-poaching agreements under the 1890 antitrust law.
In his own statement, Thiry first thanked the jury for its “thoughtfulness in performing its solemn duty.”
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