NEW YORK – Feeding Westchester in Elmsford has received over 140,000 eggs as part of a bipartisan multistate settlement with Cal-Maine Foods, Versova/Centrum, and Hickman’s Egg Ranch for years of price-fixing.
A multistate investigation by the State Attorney General’s Office, the US Department of Justice, and 16 other states revealed that the three companies illegally coordinated to influence a daily price index for eggs.
The investigation alleged that this coordination artificially increased prices for retailers and consumers throughout the country for years.
Under the settlement with the states, the three egg producers will deliver 53 million eggs to food banks in the 17 participating states, including just under five million eggs to New York.
In addition to the egg deliveries, the companies will pay $3.3 million to states and make changes to their practices to prevent future violations of the law.
The delivery of 11,700 cartons of a dozen eggs to feeding Westchester is the sixth in a series of egg deliveries to food banks statewide.
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