Some corporate executives think that antitrust enforcement is concerned only with the Fortune 100, and smaller companies such as textile rental companies have no need for antitrust concern.  This is far from true.  Textile rental operators have been investigated and convicted of criminal and civil antitrust violations in areas such as South Florida, Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Cleveland, Detroit, St. Louis and most recently New York.
 
In the old days, an individual convicted of a criminal antitrust violation could plead “nolo contendere”  (i.e., no contest) and be fairly well assured that he would get a fine and perhaps ...