A federal grand jury on Wednesday indicted an executive of three home healthcare agencies for conspiring to fix the wages of nurses in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act, which dates back to 1890.
Eduardo Lopez of Las Vegas, who oversaw recruiting, hiring, retaining and assignments at the agencies, is accused of working with unnamed co-conspirators to “suppress and eliminate competition for the services of nurses between March 2016 and May 2019,” according to the Justice Department. Specifically, Lopez and his co-conspirators are charged with participating in a series of meetings and communications to fix wages of nurses.
A violation of the Sherman Act is a felony that carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison as well as a $1 million fine for individuals and a maximum fine of $100 million for corporations.
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