https://theintercept.com/2019/02/26/ftc-staples-essendant-merger/
February 26 2019
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Post ID: @XQDoCl4-1myq
Whatever you say Sandy "Jesus" D!
"Reilly’s past service at the FTC is precisely how he makes his money working for corporate clients. He needs to shuttle between the government and the private sector to build the relationships necessary to serve his clients’ goals of concentrating corporate power"
Scumbag!
Not garbage.... absolute corruption within the FTC
Hell, the whole damn government for that matter
The guy hasn't worked for the FTC for seven years, has no authority over any individuals at the FTC and there us supposed to be some sort of conflict of interest?
Garbage.
WTF??
The legal counsel for Staples’s parent company was, until 2012, the leader of the FTC division that negotiated the settlement, where he worked with some of the agency lawyers now dealing with the Staples case.
The lead counsel for Sycamore Partners, the private equity firm that owns Staples, is Matthew J. Reilly of the white-shoe D.C. law firm Kirkland & Ellis. As his bio indicates, Reilly “served for five years as the head of the FTC’s Mergers IV division.” The Mergers IV Division of the FTC’s Bureau of Competition happens to be the section that handled the Staples-Essendant case.