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US: Apple cooperation with antitrust monitor down ‘sharply’

By  |  April 16, 2015

Apple Inc’s cooperation with a court-appointed monitor has “sharply declined” as he reviews the iPad maker’s antitrust compliance policies, the monitor wrote in a report to a judge.

Michael Bromwich, who became Apple’s monitor after it was found liable for conspiring to raise e-book prices, said in a report on Thursday that Apple objected to providing information and “inappropriately” attempted to limit his activities.

Bromwich, whose relationship with Apple has been testy since the start, had indicated that relations had improved in a report in October to U.S. District Judge Denise Cote in Manhattan.

However, he said in his latest report that the company recently had taken a more “adversarial tone” in discussions.

“We have conducted no interviews since January, and Apple has rejected our recent requests for interviews,” Bromwich wrote.

 

Full Content: The Wall Street Journal

 

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