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Antitrust counsel vulnerable to prosecution for obstruction if clients improperly delete ephemeral messages, DOJ official says

Antitrust attorneys can open themselves up to criminal obstruction charges if they fail to ensure that so-called "ephemeral messages" are properly retained by clients, a senior US Department of Justice official said today.
“It's up to you all to find a way to preserve those [messages] if they are responsive

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Khushita Vasant

Chief Antitrust Correspondent, US


Khushita covers US antitrust enforcement and litigation for MLex. A former Brussels hand, she wrote about about antitrust & mergers for the Policy and Regulatory Report (PaRR), she has covered the EU's actions against Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon to name a few. Khushita specialises in tech and patent policy coverage which featured in the Concurrences Antitrust Writing Awards. Previously as a financial journalist for The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires, she wrote about monetary policy and the bond and currency markets. Khushita studied journalism at Mumbai University, and received an Erasmus Mundus scholarship for a masters from universities in Germany and Austria.

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