Kurt Eichenwald, a New York Times journalist, gives us a bullet-train of a read, describing how the FBI stumbled on the price-fixing situation at ADM
Competitors are our friends. Customers are our enemy. The CEO of Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) in the early nineties, Dwayne Andreas, held such interesting views. For acting on these views and indulging in price-fixing, the then vice-chairman of the company, Michael Andreas, and two other officials received prison terms.
(This story appears in the 25 September, 2009 issue of Forbes India. To visit our Archives, click here.)