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Google tells US DOJ ‘serious concerns’ about Kanter’s impartiality may require his recusal from cases

By Michael Acton and Max Fillion
  • 19 Nov 2021 17:32
  • 19 Nov 2021 18:29
Google has warned the US Department of Justice that its new assistant attorney general for antitrust, Jonathan Kanter, may need to recuse himself from cases involving the tech giant due to serious doubts about his impartiality.
In a forceful letter to the department (see here), Google warns that Kanter’s prior

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Michael Acton

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Michael is a senior correspondent for MLex in San Francisco, where he moved in 2020 after working in our Brussels bureau. Before joining MLex, he reported on EU politics as the Financial Times’ Nico Colchester Fellow in Brussels. Michael has a degree in International Relations and Politics from the University of Cambridge, and a degree in History and French from University College London and Paris IV Sorbonne.

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