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US DOJ stands ready to bring criminal charges in Section 2 monopolization cases, Powers says

By Michael Acton
  • 02 Mar 2022 20:59
  • 02 Mar 2022 21:12
The US Department of Justice is prepared to bring criminal charges against individual executives who break Section 2 of the Sherman Act, which prohibits market monopolization, the DOJ antitrust division’s top criminal enforcer warned today.
Richard Powers, deputy assistant attorney general for criminal enforcement, told a conference in San Francisco

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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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