United States v. Hal Brown, Jr., United States of America v. Michael F. Tobey

FLETCHER, Circuit Judge:

Defendants Brown and Tobey appeal their jury convictions for conspiracy to suppress competition for billboard sites in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1 (1988). We affirm.

FACTS

Appellant Brown is senior vice president for public affairs in a division of Gannett Company, Inc. that includes fifteen separate billboard advertising companies. One of these companies is Gannett Outdoor Company, Inc. of Southern California, an original defendant in this case and the descendant of a company that Brown’s father founded in the early 1930s. Brown himself started…