UNITED STATES v. FISCHBACH AND MOORE, INC.

Crim. No. 83-98.

576 F.Supp. 1384 (1983)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. FISCHBACH AND MOORE, INCORPORATED, The Howard P. Foley Company, Lord Electric Company, Inc., Sargent Electric Company, E.C. Ernst, Inc., Tri-City Electric Company, Inc., Joseph J. Rodgers, Paul E. Arbogast, Frederic B. Sargent, Ralph D. Vryenhoek, and James L. Oesterle, Defendants.

United States District Court, W.D. Pennsylvania.

December 22, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hays Gorey, Jr., Gary S. Humble, Mark C. Schechter, Dept. of Justice, Antitrust Div., Washington, D.C., for U.S.

Joseph S. Van Bokkellen, Goldsmith, Goodman, Ball & Van Bokkellen, P.C., Highland, Ind. and Charles Scarlata, Pittsburgh, Pa., for Tri City Elec. Co., Inc.

H. Yale Gutnick, Strassburger, McKenna, Messer, Shilobod & Gutnick, Pittsburgh, Pa., for Joseph J. Rodgers.

Norman H. Seidler, Gordon B. Spivack, Lord, Day & Lord, New York City, and P. Jerome Richey, John P. McComb, Jr., Buchanan & Ingersoll, Pittsburgh, Pa., for Fischbach & Moore, Inc.

Robert F. McDermott, Marianne Corr, Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue, Washington, D.C. and Robert J. Cindrich, Pittsburgh, Pa., for the Howard P. Foley Co.

Clyde Armstrong, Thorp, Reed & Armstrong, Pittsburgh, Pa., for Paul E. Arbogast.

Melvin Schwartz, Baskin & Sears, P.A., Boca Raton, Fla. and Harold Gondelman, Gondelman, Baxter, McVerry, Smith, Yatch & Trimm, Pittsburgh, Pa., for Frederic B. Sargent and Ralph D. Vryenhoek.

James G. Richmond, Highland, Ind. and Charles Scarlata, Pittsburgh, Pa., for James L. Oesterle.

Jeffrey C. Slade, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, New York City and Jon Hogue, Pittsburgh, Pa., for Lord Elec.

Peter F. Gass, Deborah Fabricant, Peter N. Wang, Friedman & Gass, P.C., New York City, for E.C. Ernst, Inc.


OPINION

COHILL, District Judge.

The defendants in this case were indicted by a federal grand jury and charged with criminal violations of Section 1 of the Sherman Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1. The government allegations charge defendants with conspiracy and bid rigging in connection with electrical contracting work done for United States Steel at its "Western Pennsylvania Works" from 1974 to 1981.1 Specifically, the government claims...

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