Lawsuit Rocks the Yacht-Sales World

Alleges That Brokers and Their Associations Engaged in a Scheme That Cheated Thousands of Sellers

The Haarlem Painter's Guild by Jan de Bray portrays men engaged in an early type of monopoly, which is what the yacht-sales industry is being accused of being in a sweeping lawsuit, filed in federal court earlier this week.

“Anti-competitive measures abound.”

For the past four years, yacht brokers have systematically cheated thousands of people trying to…