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...The Department of Justice and SEC were investigating the block trade practices as both a criminal and civil matter....
...OJ Simpson, the American football superstar and Hollywood actor whose acquittal in a 1995 murder trial sparked a rancorous debate about race and justice in the US, has died of cancer aged 76....
...If that deal is picked apart by the US Department of Justice, it could knock about 8 per cent off Apple’s EPS, UBS says. 9....
...By one account, he’s also the subject of a US Department of Justice Department criminal investigation....
...DoJ vs Alphabet The US justice department sued Google yesterday, alleging the company is a monopolist that has the digital ad markets in a stranglehold....
...But neither company representatives nor Liu appeared in court, the US Department of Justice said. It said Zhongwang remained a “fugitive”. In better times, Zhongwang had funded its own expansion....
...); (v) the EU taxonomy; and (vi) a possible carbon border tax....
...“The fact that [David] Cameron, [Jeremy] Heywood (the most powerful civil servant) et al did not understand many basic features of how the world works is why I and a few others gambled on the referendum,...
...justice department’s intrusion....
...One man Solomon knows well but DD readers may not is Brian Benczkowski, head of the US Department of Justice’s criminal division....
...To suggest that the importance of hard work was inculcated early scarcely does justice to Buchan’s astonishing level of application. Stakhanovites seem sybaritic by comparison....
...(FT) Seeking advice American Media, the owner of National Enquirer, sought backing from Saudi investors and advice from the US Justice Department over whether it should register as a foreign agent, the...
...This was disproved by the trial of US v Zarrab et al, in which a Turkish banker and a gold trader were convicted of laundering Iranian oil and gas revenues....
...Yasir Al-Rumayyan, the head of the PIF, even joined the company’s board....
...More and more Americans, meanwhile, view FB et al etc as the new Big Tobacco....
...Elsewhere, Matt Stoller from the Open Markets Program expands on his interesting tweet storm from the weekend on why the justice department would be right to block the deal....
...Yet it was a surprise in November when the Department of Justice sued to block the transaction....
...In my day, it was Cronkite, Chancellor et al delivering the good news from Aix to Ghent with a sobriety that was impressive....
...The effect on local opinion of the US drone campaign to hit al-Qaeda’s leadership in the federally administered tribal area of Pakistan since 2004 has, for example, only recently been taken seriously by...
...To take a recent example, ticket sales for Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice dropped by an astonishing 68.4 per cent on its second weekend, as comic-book fans returned to their dens....
...Last week, the US Department of Justice won a court order for $480m of alleged proceeds of corruption in what it called the “largest ever kleptocracy forfeiture action in the US”....
...So why has there been so little reaction to reports that Abe et al might change the timing or scale of the consumption tax?...
...Abe et al are keen on ending deflation — but they are going to hinder that push with a fiscal tightening. No tension there, then....
...While always consumed by personal ambition and notions of greatness (he was an avid student of Lincoln, Churchill, Napoleon et al), he started musing about a legacy that would benefit his and all other children...
...Similarly, Comcast et al continue to proclaim in the face of mounting evidence to the contrary that the US leads the world in telecommunications with respect to price and performance....
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