Feds charge 12 with violent scheme to 'monopolize' business at border

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The Justice Dept. invoked a 132-year-old law to charge 12 people with running a violent scheme to “monopolize” the resale of American cars and other goods in Central America by fixing prices and retaliating against those who refused to be extorted.

The Justice Department invoked a rarely used, 132-year-old law on Tuesday to charge 12 people with running a violent and sometimes deadly scheme to “monopolize” the resale of American cars and other goods in Central America by fixing prices and retaliating against those who refused to be extorted.

The Justice Department charged the group under the Sherman Act of 1890, an antitrust regulation used to break up American monopolies Standard Oil in the 1920s and AT&T in the 1970s. One of the men charged, Carlos Favian Martinez, who goes by “Cuate,” is the former son-in-law of the head of the powerful and violent

 

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Good job justice department. Now do this one…

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