Welcome to Compliance Hot Spots, our weekly snapshot on white-collar, regulatory and compliance news and trends. Today, the Justice Department has brought its first criminal monopolization case in 45 years. What does that mean for the enforcement environment? Plus, the House Jan. 6 committee has congressional investigations lawyers preparing for more video depositions and a key DOJ white-collar official lands back at Latham & Watkins. Please get in touch with tips and feedback. Contact me at [email protected] and @AGoudsward on Twitter.
Jonathan Kanter, assistant attorney general in the antitrust division at the U.S. Department of Justice. Photo: Diego M. Radzinschi/ALM
They’re Back: DOJ Brings First Criminal Monopolization Case in 45 Years
Justice Department antitrust officials raised eyebrows earlier this year when they announced that DOJ would consider using an enforcement tool dormant for decades: criminal monopolization cases.
