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Judge rules Apple executive lied under oath, makes criminal contempt referral
Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers rebuked the phone giant, opened the app store, and made a criminal contempt referral to an Apple executive for lying under oath. Plus, a bad antitrust bill goes down.
But this time, the judge accused Apple Vice-President of Finance, Alex Roman, of having “outright lied under oath,” and referred the matter to the U.S. Attorney for a criminal contempt investigation. On Monday, I traced a proposal from Republican leader Jim Jordan, who chairs the House Judiciary Committee, to eliminate a key antitrust law, which is the Federal Trade Commission’s authority to ban “unfair methods of competition.” That’s the authority used in several important cases, including one involving Amazon, another targeting UnitedHealth Group and CVS, as well as a seed and chemical case where the defendants are Corteva and Syngenta. Naturally, the Democrats were not on board with rolling back antitrust law and weakening the FTC, with Congresswomen Becca Balint and Pramila Jayapal speaking out in the committee markup.
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