Editing Mark Whitacre (section)

=== ADM price-fixing ===
{{See also|Lysine price-fixing conspiracy}}
In 1992, during an ADM-initiated investigation of corporate espionage and sabotage, Whitacre informed an [[FBI]] agent that he and other ADM executives were involved in an illegal multinational [[lysine]] price-fixing scheme.<ref name="Wilson"/><ref name="CPR">{{Citation|last= CPR |title=The Fix Is In |work=Chicago Public Radio |date= September 18, 2009 |url=http://www.thisamericanlife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=168 }}</ref> Whitacre's wife pressured him into becoming a whistleblower after she threatened to go to the FBI herself.<ref>{{Harvnb|Eichenwald|2000|loc=page 49}}</ref>

Over the next three years, Whitacre worked with FBI agents to collect information and record conversations with both ADM executives and its competitors.<ref name="Henkoff"/> ADM ultimately settled federal charges for more than $100&nbsp;million and paid hundreds of millions of dollars more to plaintiffs and customers ($400&nbsp;million alone on a [[high-fructose corn syrup]] [[class action]] case).<ref name="Wilson">{{Citation |author= Wilson, J.K. |title= Price-Fixer to the World |publisher= [[Bankrate]] |date= December 21, 2000 |url= http://www.bankrate.com/brm/news/investing/20001221c.asp?prodtype=grn |access-date= September 20, 2009 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100329042753/http://www.bankrate.com/brm/news/investing/20001221c.asp?prodtype=grn |archive-date= March 29, 2010 |url-status=live}}</ref>{{sfn|Greenwald|Donnelly|McWhirter|1996}}<ref>{{cite press release |title=Archer Daniels Settles Suit Accusing it of Price Fixing |publisher=[[Kaplan Fox]]|last=Manor|first=Robert|date=July 19, 2004 |url=http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2004-06-19/business/0406190182_1_lysine-and-citric-acid-mark-whitacre-corn-syrup |access-date=September 20, 2009 |url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150704065804/http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2004-06-19/business/0406190182_1_lysine-and-citric-acid-mark-whitacre-corn-syrup |archive-date=July 4, 2015}}</ref>