U.S. District Judge, Daniel Domenico, has granted a defense motion for a bill of particulars requiring the Department of Justice to specify alleged events relating to collusion. Jason McGuire and Timothy Stiller will face trial on an alleged conspiracy to fix prices and unlawful restraint of interstate trade and commerce with Stiller having to answer to obstruction of an official proceeding.
The Department of Justice has been singularly unsuccessful in proving that collusion occurred over three trials with two ending in hung juries and the third in an acquittal of five defendants. In early August, charges were dismissed against Wesley Scott Tucker and Justin Gay formerlly of of Pilgrim’s Pride.