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Jurors in DaVita trial quiz FBI agent about investigation tactics
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Jurors expressed a keen interest on Monday in knowing the details of the federal government’s process for investigating, charging and prosecuting kidney care company DaVita, Inc. and its former leader, Kent Thiry, on white-collar criminal charges. As the second week of the trial began in downtown Denver, Special Agent Matthew Hamel of the Federal Bureau…
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DaVita criminal trial ends first week with executive hiring under microscope
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The criminal trial of kidney care company DaVita, Inc. and its former leader, Kent Thiry, ended its first week with a detailed look at the flow of DaVita employees to Radiology Partners, another healthcare company the government alleges was involved in a conspiracy to stifle competition in the labor market. Jurors heard from Rich Whitney,…
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Defense gets chance to clarify gentlemen’s agreements in DaVita criminal trial
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Defense lawyers sought to change jurors’ perception of the corporate pacts at the heart of the federal criminal trial of DaVita, Inc. and its former leader, Kent Thiry, by clarifying the intent directly with one of the men responsible for the agreements. Andrew Hayek, the former chief executive officer of Surgical Care Affiliates, said on…
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‘Tell-your-boss’ mandate at center of witness testimony in DaVita trial
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Jurors learned that Kent Thiry, the former leader of DaVita, Inc., was the person who devised the unusual – and illegal, prosecutors say – requirement that DaVita’s senior employees tell their superiors that they were thinking of leaving before they could even be considered for positions at a competitor company. The “tell-your-boss” feature, as parties in the…
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‘I’m not proud of this’: Jurors in DaVita hear from witnesses who carried out allegedly illegal agreements
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Jurors on Tuesday learned details about the alleged conspiracy to keep workers locked in their jobs by DaVita, Inc. and its former leader Kent Thiry, hearing directly from two people who enforced the terms of the agreements or understood the motivations behind them. A key government witness, Bridget “Bridie” Fanning, recalled how uncomfortable she felt…
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White-collar DaVita trial kicks off with competing interpretations of corporate agreements
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Twelve jurors heard competing interpretations on Monday of the corporate agreements that are at the heart of a novel criminal trial based on an 1890 federal antitrust law. To the government, the agreements between kidney dialysis company DaVita, Inc. and three of its competitors represented an illegal scheme to restrict the movement of employees between…
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United States v. DaVita: Preview of groundbreaking white-collar trial in Denver
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The nearly three-week criminal trial of Denver-based DaVita, Inc. and its former leader, Kent Thiry, will begin on Monday morning, as prosecutors attempt to prove that a series of agreements between DaVita and its competitors are a novel violation of a century-old antitrust law. The government alleges there were high-level understandings that certain competitor companies…
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Parties argue over mundane, salacious issues as DaVita trial looms
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With weeks to go until the high-profile white collar trial, attorneys for the United States and for Fortune 500 company DaVita, Inc. clashed in a downtown Denver courtroom, arguing over the admissibility of expert testimony, the multimillion-dollar compensation for DaVita’s CEO-turned-defendant, and the government’s withholding of information. The parties on Thursday even disputed whether the…
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‘Keep Kent Thiry happy’: Prosecutors air statements of alleged DaVita conspiracy in court
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With a jury trial scheduled to take place in just over a month, the U.S. Department of Justice revealed in federal court on Thursday a catalogue of statements from co-conspirators in the alleged scheme by Denver-based DaVita, Inc. and its ex-leader, Kent Thiry, to unlawfully restrict the movement of employees between companies. Thiry and DaVita…
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Ex-DaVita CEO, federal prosecutors argue in court over groundbreaking antitrust case
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There were two things federal prosecutors and lawyers for kidney dialysis company DaVita Inc. agreed on: First, the criminal case involving DaVita’s agreement with competitors to not recruit each other’s high-level employees is one of the first of its kind brought under century-old antitrust laws. Second, both parties argued that a federal judge must decide…
