Big egg producers artificially inflated prices as Americans struggled to buy groceries, must now pay $3.3M: DOJ

Rigged egg-flation. Three of the US’s major egg producers had been artificially inflating prices of the shelled food — spiking Americans’ grocery bills for months — and will now be forced to pay $3.3 million for their dirty business dealings after reaching a proposed settlement with the Justice Department and 17 states.