conflict-of-interests

Google wined and dined FTC commissioners in Aspen

Tim Faulkner · 12/20/07 04:00PM

The FTC has approved Google's $3.1 billion acquisition, ignoring claims of conflict of interest that could have slowed down the process, like FTC chair Deborah Platt Majoras's marriage to a lawyer whose firm represented DoubleClick in the matter. And that wasn't the only scandal. Google cash paid, indirectly, for a lavish summit in Aspen that three commmissioners attended.