white collar
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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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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…
