The former president and CEO of packaged seafood company Bumble Bee was convicted on Dec. 3 for his participation in an antitrust conspiracy to fix prices of canned tuna, the Justice Department announced.
Following a four-week trial in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in San Francisco, a jury convicted Christopher Lischewski for conspiring to fix prices of canned tuna sold in the United States from around November 2010 until around December 2013. According to evidence presented at trial, Lischewski participated in a conspiracy to fix prices of canned tuna that affected hundreds of millions of dollars in sales throughout the United States.
