September 06, 2012
State Rep Views Bitcoin As Legitimate Currency Competitor
It’s been a turbulent week for the digital currency known as Bitcoin. First, we saw Bitfloor, the fourth-largest Bitcoin exchange, fall victim to a $250,000 hacking theft. Next we heard...
July 30, 2012
Canadian consulting company pleads guilty to bid-rigging
Now subject to a court order and slated to pay $125,000 in fines, Corporate Research Group of Canada pled guilty to criminal bid-rigging for real estate advisory contracts with the...
June 28, 2012
Two Mobile real estate investors indicted for bid-rigging AL real...
A federal grand jury in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Alabama has indicted two Mobile real estate investors and their company, J & R Properties. The...
June 07, 2012
Two more investors cop to bid-rigging at N. Cal. real...
Two more real estate investors, Douglas Ditmer and San Ramon, have agreed to plead guilty to rigging bids at public real estate foreclosure auctions in Northern California. Actions that the...
May 31, 2012
Lack of evidence of abuse of dominance frees Emaar from...
The Competition Commission of India was unable to rule that Emaar abused its dominance, despite finding that agreements it entered into with Silapuri Colonizers were anti-competitive. The antitrust watchdog did...
May 28, 2012
Warehouse ordered to load out 500 tons of certified robusta...
The Competition Council of Belgium has ordered Port Real Estate, a warehouse operator at Antwerp port, to maintain a minimum volume for loading out certified robusta coffee. The order is...
April 29, 2012
Real estate investor to serve one year in prison for...
Steven J. Cox, a Mobile, Alabama real estate investor, has agreed to plead guilty for his role in a bid-rigging conspiracy at public real estate foreclosure auctions in Alabama. The...
April 26, 2012
CoStar and LoopNet asked to sell interest in Xceligent for...
The Federal Trade Commission has proposed a settlement to resolve its competition concerns with CoStar Group’s $860 million acquisition of LoopNet. CoStar is the nation’s largest provider of information/marketing services...
April 26, 2012
Guilty plea count up to 22 in DOJ bid-rigging probe...
California real estate investors Lydia Fong and Matthew Worthing have pleaded guilty to bid-rigging at public real estate foreclosure auctions in northern California. From October 2009 to January 2011, Fong...
