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Dirty tricks: Google lied and cheated, federal court judges in monopoly cases say
Google fighting desperate court battles against the federal government and many states to prevent its breakup over monopolistic behavior.
Incidents like this, filed as evidence in three ongoing anti-monopoly cases brought against Google, have highlighted what state and federal authorities say are the Mountain View technology giant’s long-running machinations to conceal and destroy internal communications that could be used by regulators or against it in court. “The federal courts in particular have very high expectations about the care and prudence with which corporate America needs to preserve documents,” said UC Berkeley law school lecturer John Steele, a specialist in legal ethics and professional liability. In a Nov. 5 filing, the federal government and states tied Google’s tactics to its market dominance, claiming it trained workers “to abuse the attorney-client privilege and destroy documents” in order to protect its alleged monopoly.
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