10+ Conspiracy Theories That Turned Out to be True

Whether you bought cereal, pet food, or a bottle of vitamins in the 1990s, you were paying extra, though few knew it. The idea that giant drug companies were secretly teaming up to control vitamin prices sounded far-fetched. Then one company confessed to investigators.

French company Rhône-Poulenc told U.S. investigators everything in exchange for a lighter punishment. For a decade, Roche, BASF, and others had met secretly to split up markets and fix vitamin prices worldwide. Roche paid a record $500 million fine, and some executives went to prison.