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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Victoria Bekiempis and agencies

Republican Senate candidate’s family egg company caught in price-fixing plot

Three conveyor belts conveying hundreds of eggs at a Rose Acre Farms facility.
Jurors found that Rose Acre Farms exported eggs outside the US and killed hens early to inflate prices. Photograph: Aaron Piper/AP

The family farming company of a Republican candidate for the US Senate was found liable on Tuesday in a plot to fix the price of eggs.

Rose Acre Farms, which claims to be the second-largest egg producer in the country and until September was chaired by John Rust – now running as a Senate candidate for Indiana – was accused in a civil suit of cutting supply to raise prices.

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