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IP: perhaps a better explanation why Bush's DOJ bent over for Microsoft
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2001 17:31:27 -0400
From: Jim Warren <jwarren () well com> Forward: [Random-bits] MS campaign contributions and lobbying expenditureshttp://www.opensecrets.org/alerts/v6/alertv6_26.asp Microsoft Antitrust Case: An Update on the Company's Lobbying and Campaign Contributions
Microsoft Antitrust Case: An Update on the Company's Lobbying and Campaign Contributions After more than three years of investigations, litigation and intensive lobbying, the Justice Department today announced it would no longer seek a break-up of the computer giant Microsoft, ending one aspect of a landmark case that sent the company's campaign contributions soaring and formally introduced the computer industry to Washington politics. The decision by the Bush administration to vacate the lawsuit that was first initiated in 1998 by the Clinton Justice Department is considered a major victory for Microsoft, which nearly tripled its campaign contributions and more than doubled its lobbying expenditures during its fight against the antitrust case. <snip>
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