Mark Whitacre
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Mark Whitacre (born 1957) was an executive at the Archer Daniels Midland Company, where he was the key insider informant responsible for the 1996 conviction of the company in a price fixing conspiracy centered on lysine, an animal feed additive. When first hired by ADM in 1989 at the age of 32, Whitacre was the youngest divisional president in the history of the company.
It was, at the time, the largest case of its kind in U.S. history. Convicted and sent to prison in 1998, Whitacre was, as of June 2004, in his sixth year of incarceration. While in prison, he has been a model inmate and earned numerous advanced degrees. Whitacre and his wife of 26 years, Ginger, have three children.
External links
- ADM: WHO'S NEXT? (http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/business/october96/adm_10-15.html), a MacNeil/Lehrer news report from the time
- "The Fix Is In" (http://thislife.org/ra/168.ram), a RealAudio broadcast from This American Life (http://thislife.org/): "[...] we hear from New York Times reporter Kurt Eichenwald, whose book The Informant outlines how a shadowy cabal of men in suits actually sat down together around a table and set worldwide food prices (leading to the largest antitrust fine in U.S. history)."
- transom.org discussion (http://makeashorterlink.com/?A4AE21712) about "The Fix Is In"
- excerpts (http://thislife.org/pages/trax/text/adm1.html) from The Informant