Kirk Victor
Associate Editor
Kirk covers the Federal Trade Commission and the Justice Department's antitrust division at MLex subsidiary, FTCWatch. He is an award-winning journalist, having spent over 20 years at National Journal, where he covered a range of beats, including the White House and the U.S. Senate. He collaborated with former US Senator Ernest F. Hollings of South Carolina on Hollings' book, Making Government Work.
He has degrees from the Antioch School of Law, Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism and Williams College. He practiced law in the Justice Department's Civil Division.
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News of a federal judge approving amendments sought by 16 states to Live Nation’s settlement with the Justice Department didn’t tell the full story. -
In a wide-ranging, hour-long telephone interview from Paris where he was attending the OECD Global Forum on Competition, Makan Delrahim pulled no punches. -
Veteran practitioners were surprised by news of the Federal Trade Commission securing monetary relief against personal finance website LendEDU, which engaged in a pay-to-play scheme.