“Cartels are regarded as the most dangerous form of anticompetitive conduct,” said Andrew I. Gavil, a law professor at Howard University. “The reason is that the potential impact on consumers is so great, and there is no plausible justification for it.”
Advocates Speak Up for Illegal Day Laborers Cheated of Wages
It was a relatively small amount, $720, that José was owed for 72 hours of construction work in the District. Most immigrant day laborers, fleeced by a casual employer and unaware they had any legal recourse, would have swallowed their anger and let the matter drop.
(By Pamela Constable, The Washington Post)
Airlines agree to anti-trust settlement
Four international airlines have agreed to pay 504 million dollars in fines to settle charges they conspired to fleece customers by driving up cargo shipping prices. The US Justice Department has called the case one of the largest anti-trust settlements in US history.
Associate Attorney General Kevin O'Connor called the scam an "international price-fixing cartel" that cost consumers hundreds of millions of dollars between 2001 and 2006. In some instances, he said, fuel surcharges rose by 1,000 percent. One of the four airlines, Air France-KLM, has agreed to pay 350 million dollars of the total settlement.
fleece (CHEAT)
verb [T] INFORMAL
to take someone's money dishonestly, by charging too much money or by cheating them:
That restaurant really fleeced us!
anti-trust , 反托辣斯
price-fixing cartel 操控價格的托辣斯
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