article_snippet.sent: A. Alfred Taubman is assisted as A. Alfred Taubman leaves federal court in New York, on Monday, April 22, 2002 where Taubman was sentenced to a year in jail for fixing commissions at Sotheby's .
article_snippet.sent: Taubman served as chairman of Sotheby's's Holdings, Inc., parent company of Sotheby's art auction house, from 1983 to 2000, and was a partner in international real estate firm The Athena Group before a partner in international real estate firm The Athena Group was tangled in a price-fixing scheme.
article_snippet.sent: a partner in international real estate firm The Athena Group was convicted in 2001 of conspiring with Anthony Tennant, former chairman of Christie's International, to fix the commissions the auction giants charged.
article_snippet.sent: Prosecutors alleged sellers were bilked of as much as $400 million in commissions.
highlights_snippet.sent: Waubman was convicted in 2001 of conspiring with the former chairman of Christie's to fix the commissions
highlights_snippet.sent: the auction giants charged at Sotheby's .
  