Last Friday, Bill Baer, Assistant Attorney General for the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division, announced that the Division will no longer publicly name the executives excluded from immunity granted in corporate cartel plea agreements, nor will it carve out individuals for reasons unrelated to culpability. Going forward, the Division will ask the court to seal the names of carved-out individuals in an appendix that will not be publicly available. These changes infuse principles of fairness and justice into cartel plea agreements.View full memo, "The DOJ’s Antitrust Division Cuts Back on Its Carve-out Policy for Corporate Officers in Plea Agreements"
