First DOJ Extradition Of Foreigner For Criminal Antitrust Charges

April 10, 2014

The Department of Justice announced the first extradition of a foreign national to the United States to stand trial for alleged criminal antitrust violations. Romano Pisciotti is an Italian who was extradited from Germany where he had landed to catch a connecting flight. A former executive of a company that makes hoses used in the petroleum shipping industry, he had been under indictment since 2010. His extradition, write WilmerHale attorneys Steven F. Cherry, Leon B. Greenfield and Kurt G. Kastorf, “may cause individuals in similar circumstances to think twice before venturing from their home countries, or to reconsider whether to refuse voluntarily to come to the United States to face charges in the first place.”

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