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...A US federal judge has blocked JetBlue Airways’ proposed $3.8bn acquisition of Spirit Airlines, in a victory for the Biden administration’s top antitrust enforcer at the Department of Justice....
...Jack Smith, a special counsel appointed by US attorney-general Merrick Garland, obtained charges against Trump on 37 criminal counts, including conspiracy to obstruct justice, concealing documents in a federal...
...(He was subsequently appointed as an investment columnist at the Financial Times.)...
...(Now, as attorney-general, Garland will be the one who decides whether to prosecute Trump over January 6.)...
...If US federal prosecutors are to be believed, they couldn’t have done so if they tried....
...(NYT) The battle on Big Tech Democrats have placed their hopes of reining in Silicon Valley on Lina Khan, the newly appointed head of the Federal Trade Commission....
...In an inspired appointment, Mr Carter asked Volcker to take over from G William Miller as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board in Washington....
...Bennett Goodman — the G in GSO who just stepped back from running Blackstone’s powerful credit unit — cut his teeth there....
...Attorneys for those named either did not immediately return requests for comment or could not be immediately identified....
...In 1989 she married economics professor Sidney G Winter, who survives her along with her children....
...Separately, a federal appeals court dismissed Mr Trump’s effort to shield his tax returns from state prosecutors....
...Alan Greenspan, who was first appointed by Ronald Reagan, won reappointment from George HW Bush, Bill Clinton and George W Bush....
...A profile of the US attorney-general and a longer look at the outstanding questions following the release of his report summary....
...The deputy attorney-general attracted Mr Trump’s fury this week after federal agents raided the office and home of Michael Cohen, the president’s personal attorney....
...The memo’s release is likely to put further pressure on Rod Rosenstein, the deputy attorney-general, who appointed Mr Mueller....
...Democrats are worried that Mr Trump is paving the way to fire Rod Rosenstein, the deputy attorney-general who appointed Mr Mueller....
...According to US media reports, Mr Trump has toyed with the idea of neutering the Russia probe by removing Mr Mueller or Rod Rosenstein, the deputy attorney-general who appointed him....
...The previous non-economist in the job was G William Miller, appointed by the president Jimmy Carter in 1978....
...Mr Rosenstein appointed Robert Mueller as special counsel to oversee the probe into possible collusion between Trump campaign officials and Russia on May 17....
...However it is Robert Mueller who has been appointed as special counsel to investigate Russian involvement in the 2016 presidential election and possible links with the Trump campaign....
...The president already has begun reshaping the ranks of federal prosecutors, with his weekend sacking of all 46 holdover US attorneys appointed by President Barack Obama....
...The SEC also expressed its appreciation for the help it has had in this case from the US Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation....
...Alan Greenspan, appointed by Ronald Reagan to succeed Mr Volcker in 1987, stressed continuity as well as improved communication....
...Among them were Ed Meese, Ronald Reagan’s attorney-general; Robert McFarlane, his national security adviser; Marc Rich, the financier who died recently; and Oral Roberts, the evangelist....
...The court also debated the federal government’s right to ask states to expand Medicaid coverage to the poor, which opponents call a “coercive” overstep of its power....
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