At the same time, these giant companies were still raking in record profits. So I pushed the Justice Department to investigate whether these companies were manipulating the market. Well, The Justice Department did investigate and ended up accusing three major egg producers of [colluding to inflate prices]. doing exactly that. Colluding to artificially inflate egg prices. But instead of taking these three companies to court, the Trump administration let them off with barely a slap on the Wrist, a measly 3 million dollar fine. (00:41–00:49)
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