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ruling in Sotheby case.
ALAN ABRAMS
Special to the Jewish News
he ordeal of Bloomfield Hills
businessman and philanthro-
,
pist 4, Alfred Taubman, who
has been facing uncertainty over
whether „the Justice Department will
indict hifit,in a price-fixing conspiracy,
may soon be over.
A federal judge in New York accept-
ed a $45 million plea agreement in
which Sotheby's auction house admit-
ted its guilt in participating in an
antitrust conspiracy to set prices.
U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan
accepted the agreement Feb. 2. He
had refused to accept the plea until
the auction house described the losses
it caused and its ability to pay dam-
ages and restitution.
The plea is a corporate plea and not
a plea by Taubman, Sotheby's former
chairman and still the company's con-
trolling shareholder. Citing that rea-
son, Chris Tennyson, a spokesman for
Taubman, declined comment.
The acceptance of the plea is a
major step toward closure of the inves-
tigation of collusion between Sotheby's
and its competitor, Christie's, to fix
commission rates paid by many cus-
tomers during the 1990s.
Although-the Justice Department
investigation and the civil suits
spawned by the case are ending, there
is still one major unresolved issue —
whether Taubman will face indict-
ment. Taubman has consistently
denied any wrongdoing.
Taubman is personally paying $156
million of Sotheby's $256 million
share of the $512 million civil settle-
ment agreed to by the two auction
houses.
Judge Kaplan, on Jan. 31, dismissed
on jurisdictional grounds three law-
suits by buyers at foreign auctions who
said they were cheated by Sotheby's
and Christie's.
The judge called the antitrust scheme
devised between former Sotheby's chief
executive Diana D. Brooks and her
counterparts at Christie's "an especially
serious case" worked out at "an
extremely high level."
Brooks, who resigned as CEO last
February, pleaded guilty to a felony
charge. She agreed to assist the govern-
ment investigation in an effort to
reduce her sentence. 0
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