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    DOJ Suit Against Google Heralded as Among 'Most Important Antitrust Cases' in US History

    DOJ Suit Against Google Heralded as Among 'Most Important Antitrust Cases' in US History

    "Never before has a single private institution concentrated so much power and control over so many corners of our nation's political economy," said one anti-monopoly expert.

    Jessica Corbett
    Jan 24, 2023

    Anti-monopoly advocates on Tuesday praised the Biden administration and eight states for launching a federal antitrust lawsuit that could break up Google, which is accused of illegally dominating the digital advertising market.

    "Competition in the ad tech space is broken, for reasons that were neither accidental nor inevitable," states the complaint filed by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), California, Colorado, Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Tennessee, and Virginia in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.

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    U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland looks on as President Joe Biden speaks at the White House on June 23, 2021.

    Biden Admin Still Pushing Trump-Era Legal Positions After Two Years in White House

    "As the previous administration violated legal and ethical norms at every turn, Attorney General Merrick Garland's choice of continuity with the Trump DOJ's positions erodes the integrity of the very institution he is determined to protect," said one researcher.

    Kenny Stancil
    Jan 20, 2023

    Two years after President Joe Biden was inaugurated, his administration continues to advance Trump-era legal positions in dozens of court cases, a progressive watchdog group revealed Friday.

    Former President Donald Trump's Department of Justice (DOJ) "consistently made a mockery of the law throughout his four years in power," the Revolving Door Project (RDP) noted in the latest release of its long-running litigation tracker.

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    Analysis Shows Corporate Prosecutions Hit Record Low in 2022 Under Biden

    "The decision to criminally charge a business in contrast to an individual for engaging in white-collar criminal activity is exceedingly rare."

    Jake Johnson
    Jan 20, 2023

    Despite the Biden administration's pledge to crack down on corporate crime, a new analysis of Justice Department data shows that business prosecutions fell to a record low in fiscal year 2022 even as there appeared to be no shortage of wrongdoing—from healthcare fraud to large-scale price gouging.

    The Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), a nonprofit data-gathering outfit, noted Thursday that out of the more than 4,000 federal white-collar prosecutions last year, "under 1% or only 31 of these defendants were businesses or corporate entities."

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