Google pressed the U.S. Department of Justice to probe whether new antitrust chief Jonathan Kanter should be recused from investigating the tech giant due to his past work representing its rivals.
Google, in a letter from a lawyer at Hogan Lovells representing the Alphabet-owned company, questioned Kanter’s impartiality by pointing to his past legal work against Google on behalf of Microsoft, Yelp, Angi and others.
“Failure to recuse (assistant attorney general) Kanter might also add fuel to suggestions that the Department’s actions might be unduly influenced by Google’s competitors—competitors that AAG Kanter himself represented,” Virginia Gibson, a Hogan Lovells lawyer, ...
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