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US: DOJ taps Shapiro for AT&T-Time Warner

By  |  January 31, 2018

The Department of Justice (DOJ), which has sued to block the telecom giant’s US$85 billion purchase of Time Warner, has reached a tentative agreement with Carl Shapiro to be its economics expert, the source said.

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    Mr. Shapiro most recently served as the Federal Trade Commission’s expert economics witness in its successful 2016 suit blocking Staples from buying Office Depot.

    The 62-year-old academic worked for the Justice Department twice as the deputy assistant attorney general for economics in the antitrust division — first under President Clinton and then under President Obama.

    Mr. Shapiro would be paid for his testimony. Barring a settlement, the trial is scheduled to begin on March 19.

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