The port that can dismantle Apple and Google faces turmoil

The sudden shooting of high -ranking officials this week is to indicate the turmoil in an agency responsible for discussing some of the largest technology monopoly in decades.

The generation of Slater, head of the Anti -Monopathy Department at the Ministry of Justice, was expelled earlier this week due to what is explained by the Ministry of Justice officials only as “experienced” in a statement not shown. Commercial Publishing Anti -monopoly Float I mentioned that the end of the letters of Roger Alford and Bill Renner, who also served in the first Trump administration, did not mention the reason for the shooting. (Alford He later posted a copy of his messageWho said he was framed and commented in his office at the University of Notre Dame.) But accounts from multiple publications, including CBS news She detailed the internal disturbances about the merger that the Chief of Staff of the Prosecutor Pam Bondi, Chad Mezel, helped to conclude objections from the leadership of the Anti -Monopathy Department, after the participation of President Donald Trump’s allies.

The ordeal feeds fears that Trump’s tendency to give political good deeds to his allies Hamas from the two parties to combat monopoly, Including in some Most of the subordinate measures that involve the technology industry. Slater, who has worked for Vice President JD Vance in the Senate, is widely seen as a respectable and dangerous figure in anti -monopoly circles. It criticized the major technology and continued in some of the most monopolies in the Biden administration, albeit with the changes that reflect a The distinctive “first American” flavor. However, the launch of two close colleagues relied on them to implement her vision – which is a slave It is said that an opponent – Calling to ask whether this ideals of this policy can escape the administration with the date of whom Rooting of the defections.

The decisions of the employees of the Ministry of Justice have always fallen to the president, but the anti -monopoly department works traditionally at a degree of distance. “There is no longer a claim that this habit is present,” says Bill Kovacic, the former head of the Federal Trade Committee (FTC. “For strangers, a link like this shows that political intervention works, then if you can employ the right people to reach the White House or to the front doj office with the correct arguments, you can overcome the preferences of the Anti -Monopoly Department.”

The Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s inclusion acquisition included $ 14 billion for Juniper networks. The Ministry of Justice filed a lawsuit in January Seek to prohibit integrationWhich it claimed would reduce the competition in the market for wireless network equipment at the level of institutions. But this week, The parties said They have reached a settlement that solves the competitive concerns of the government. Trump administration officials have not been named He said Intuition National security goals were a great factor behind the final settlement, including strengthening the American competitiveness against the Chinese Huawei. But other reports indicate that the political influence may play a greater role. Hpe It was revealed in a legal file That Mike Davis, a Trump’s influential allyAmong the company’s advisers who met with representatives of the Ministry of Justice were to the settlement agreement.

Although Davis described Slater as a friend, the anti -monopoly commander did not participate with him during the settlement negotiations, Wall Street Magazine I mentionedHer team members took a problem with politically connected lawyers such as Davis, who is brought to influence the conversations. Resist the HPE agreement, according to WsjIn Press statement by the Ministry of JusticeShe thanked her statement simply, “The diligent men and women in the anti -monopoly department for their work in this case,” without mentioning the same settlement.

In a letter to the judge Upon overseeing the issue of integration, four Democrats in the Senate accuses that the proposed settlement in reality will not resolve the fight against monopoly with the deal, partly due to the fact that it will require HPE to sell a company that legislators say does not compete directly with Juniper offers anyway. Besides reports on possible procedural issues in reaching the settlement, Sens wrote. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Amy Klobuchaar (D-MN), Cory Boker (D-NJ), and Richard Blumentel (D-CT), “These reports raise whether these reports indicate that the interest in the public or the continuous well, it is afflicted.

“This is a major change in how the Ministry of Justice has been working over the past fifty years,” said Bill Bayer, who previously led to the enforcement of the anti -monopoly in both the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. “Since Watergate, there has been something of a protection wall between White House employees and the Ministry of Justice on how to deal with investigations and individual cases. The events of the last two weeks indicate that the protection wall is no longer present.”

The Anti -Monopath Department still has many major technological issues on its painting: a promised attraction for the Google Search Monopath and the Google Ad Tech, Apple monopoly experience, and the issue of living tickets monopoly. Kovacic says that the prominent nature of many of these cases, and the fact that it is in line with other interests of the administration, makes it unlikely to see a “cheap settlement.” Nevertheless, he adds: “This episode shows that it is the issue of reaching a deal that will satisfy.”

Meanwhile, the loss of Alford and Renner represents a blow to the technical experience of the agency and external credibility. Alford The Public Prosecutor’s Office in Texas advised Upon investigation of Google and the leadership of international monopoly policy under the first Trump administration, Renner was a respectable figure who is leading the enforcement of the agency’s integration. “Your ability to triumph in court a lot depends on persuading the courts to trust you, and the main basis for trust is not only your technical legal arguments, but your strong professional ruling,” says Kovacic. “If the court begins to think that something other than your professional judgment directs your decisions, then there is nothing to respect.”

We may learn more about how the Hpe-Juniper deal agreed and what happened about the shooting on Alford and Rinner if the judge supervises the case decides to investigate more under the Transparency Law known as the Tunney Law. While experts say it will be difficult to reverse the decision of the Ministry of Justice, listening to the participants in the negotiations may shed light at least on the type of deals that occurred.

“This creates the image that is subject to everything that is happening in the United States to political reform,” says Kovacic. “It is a kind of scenario that the United States warned in the past and said that countries should not allow them to surrender this type of decision -making.”