In U.S. v. Steven Fenzl and Douglas Ritter, a Northern Disctrict of Illinois grand jury indicted two executives from an Illinois garbage cart repair company on charges of conspiracy, mail fraid and wire fraud for conspiring to rig the city of Chicago’s competitive bidding process that enlists private companies to fix roll-out refuse carts. DOJ claims that the two executives thwarted the city’s bidding process by arranging for the submission of bids from three companies other than their own, then submitting bids from their own company undercutting the other companies’ bids. Under the indictments, each executive faces a fine of $250,000 per count, which could be increased to twice the amount of money they gained from the crime or twice the amount lost by the victims, and a maximum jail sentence of 20 years.