North Carolina Annuity News

Four companies and 12 individuals have been charged and fines totaling more than $731 million have resulted from the Department's DRAM investigation. It is the second largest amount of fines ever collected by the Department of Justice from a single price-fixing conspiracy.

Each executive also has agreed to pay a $250,000 fine and to cooperate in the Antitrust Division's ongoing investigation of the DRAM industry. In agreeing to plead guilty, the executives have agreed not to contest the jurisdiction of the United States, so extradition will not be required. The pleas and sentences are subject to the approval of the U.S. District Court in San Francisco.

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