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Company: Espar Inc.
Penalty: $3,850,000
Year: 2020
Date: October 30, 2020
Offense Group: competition-related offenses
Primary Offense: price-fixing or anti-competitive practices
Violation Description: Espar and Wesbasto Products together agreed to pay $7.7 million to indirect purchasers to resolve litigation alleging a conspiracy to fix the prices of portable truck heaters. Court documents did not indicate how much each would pay. Here we assume the total was divided equally between them.
Level of Government: federal
Action Type: private litigation
Court: Eastern District of New York
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
Case ID: 1:15mc940
Case Name: In re Parking Heaters Antitrust Litigation
Private Lawsuit Resolution Type: settlement
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