Stanley Woodward
Role at the time: U.S. associate attorney general
Condemned
Statement summary
Stanley Woodward says the Justice Department must step in when it sees manipulation of commodity markets and says that is what it did in the egg case.
“The manipulation of prices in the commodities market is not a novel concept anymore, and it is incumbent upon the department when it sees the manipulation of commodity markets to step in,”
Open source (opens in a new tab)Stanley Woodward on the egg-pricing caseStanley Woodward quotation
POLITICO published the interview October 18 and describes it as recent, without giving its exact date.
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Woodward describes the department's action against the egg producers as stepping in against commodity-market manipulation, which condemns the conduct this case examines.