The head of the Antitrust Division sent a letter to lawmakers rebutting his ex-chief of staff, who told Congress politics had infected the division’s decision-making.
The top antitrust official at the Justice Department has pushed back on eyebrow-raising testimony his former chief of staff delivered to Congress last week –– and, in the process, alluded to how flummoxed department attorneys were with an unusually thorny legal issue: marijuana mergers.that Makan Delrahim, the head of the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division, sent on Wednesday to the top Republican and Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee.
“Notably, the federal antitrust agencies had no prior experience — let alone subject matter expertise — in the cannabis industry,” he wrote. The letter also addressed Elias’s testimony about the Antitrust Division’s review of an arrangement among auto manufacturers regarding compliance with California’s emissions standards. Elias said the Division leadership directed staff there to start an investigation into the arrangement the day after President Donald Trump wrote on Twitter that he thought it was terrible.
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