The Enforcer That Could Break Up Apple And Google Is Facing Upheaval

The abrupt firing of 2 high-ranking antitrust officials this week is signaling upheaval astatine an agency responsible for arguing immoderate of nan biggest tech monopoly cases successful decades.

Two apical deputies to Department of Justice Antitrust Division main Gail Slater were fired earlier this week for what a DOJ charismatic would only explicate arsenic "insubordination" successful an unattributed statement. Antitrust waste and acquisition publication MLex reported that termination letters for Roger Alford and Bill Rinner, who besides served successful nan first Trump administration, did not mention nan logic for their firing. (Alford later posted a transcript of his letter, which he said he framed and …

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