Josh Sisco
@sisco.bsky.social
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Andreessen Horowitz Focus of DOJ Probe Over Board Directors
Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz is the focus of a Justice Department antitrust probe over whether its investment partners are improperly serving on the boards of competing artificial intellig...
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Some news! I'm pausing the antitrust beat to work on Bloomberg's stellar national team, covering CA through Nov. Pumped to cover the worlds best state. Still covering the Paramount deal. Also particularly interested in all things housing joshsisco.75 on signal. Grateful for all ideas and tips!
With @sisco.bsky.social: The TransDigm-Stellant deal is at least the third merger that the antitrust division has recommended challenging, only to face resistance from Woodward — a defense attorney who represented President Donald Trump’s valet before joining DOJ.
US Merger Suits Stall Under DOJ Boss Who Opposes Blocking Deals
A nearly $1 billion takeover by a defense supplier that Pentagon officials previously faulted for overcharging the military may serve as the latest test of how light a touch the US Justice Department ...
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Scoop w @leahnylen.bsky.social The FTC is bearing down on Amazon with a potential lawsuit that could be worth tens of billions of dollars over allegedly misleading advertisers www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Amazon Faces Billions in Penalties From Potential FTC Ad Suit
Amazon.com Inc. is facing a possible lawsuit from the US Federal Trade Commission that may lead to billions of dollars in civil penalties, over claims the e-commerce giant mislead advertisers, accordi...
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Scoop from Friday: The FTC is launching an antitrust probe of semiconductor company Arm. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Arm Holdings to Face US Antitrust Probe Over Chip Tech
Arm Holdings Plc is facing an antitrust investigation by the US Federal Trade Commission over the UK company’s licensing of its semiconductor technology, part of ongoing global scrutiny of the busines...
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New from @sisco.bsky.social @allisonmcneely.bsky.social and me:
DOJ Won Access to KKR’s Emails With Lawyers in Probe of PE Deals
Federal prosecutors won the rare ability to review communications between KKR & Co. and its lawyers as part of a criminal investigation into whether information about the private equity firm’s dea...
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this link has supposedly highly secret information that should be sealed but is included in a publicly available court document for all to see by the people who want it to be secret storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Live Nation Can ‘Gouge’ Fans on Fees, Ticketing Executives Boast
Two Live Nation Entertainment Inc. executives bragged about the high fees the company charges fans at its venues, joking in internal messages that the company is “robbing them blind” and that “these p...
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Scoop! DOJ and Live Nation near settlement mid-way through landmark antitrust trial www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Live Nation Nears DOJ Settlement That Avoids Ticketmaster Sale
Live Nation Entertainment Inc. is close to settling a federal antitrust lawsuit accusing the company of illegally monopolizing the live music industry that would stop short of a divestiture of the com...
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“I’m mad I can’t understand Bad Bunny’s lyrics because they’re not in English” my brother millions of metalheads around the world have been happily listening to incomprehensible Finnish shrieks and Japanese death grunts since we were teens, you’re just boring and racist
Antitrust investigators are at your office and your ceo is worried. Have you tried physically fighting them?
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FTC’s Ferguson Eyed by White House to Oversee New Fraud Unit
Trump administration officials are eyeing Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson for a role overseeing a newly created Justice Department unit focused on combatting nationwide fraud, accord...
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DOJ staff conducting a years-long criminal antitrust probe of Live Nation & its CEO over early covid collusion recently advised that the dept not file charges. The investigation however remains ongoing, with a new team of prosecutors giving the case file fresh eyes. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
DOJ Staff Advised Against Live Nation Covid Antitrust Charges
Prosecutors that were conducting a criminal antitrust probe into music industry giant Live Nation Entertainment Inc. recommended several months ago that the Justice Department not file charges against...
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Never gonna click on this just gonna let my imagination read me the rest of the story
my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵) www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...
Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports
CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.
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Let’s make this the standard for dismissing all court filings everywhere including judges opinions
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FTC Probes Whether Ticketmaster Does Enough to Stop Resale Bots
Live Nation Inc.’s Ticketmaster is being probed by the US Federal Trade Commission over whether it’s done enough to keep bots from illegally reselling tickets on its platform.
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New from me: The Federal Trade Commission is nearing a potential lawsuit or settlement with Ticketmaster over alleged violations of the BOTS Act, a law meant to stop widespread ticket scalping. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
FTC Probes Whether Ticketmaster Does Enough to Stop Resale Bots
Live Nation Inc.’s Ticketmaster is being probed by the US Federal Trade Commission over whether it’s done enough to keep bots from illegally reselling tickets on its platform.
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Amazon, Google Probed by FTC Over Search Advertising Practices
The US Federal Trade Commission is investigating whether Amazon.com Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google misled advertisers that place ads on their websites, according to people familiar with the matter.
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in 2010 scientists who sequenced ozzy's DNA discovered he was literally a drug-doing super mutant and i think thats beautiful rip prince of darkness
1996, I just turned 15. ozzy did the ozz fest, at that point a one off festival w sepultura slayer danzig etc. I begged my dad to take me. He was miserable and I think he left worried for my future. It was the coolest thing I ever saw and I definitely howled at the moon RIP to a fucking legend
New from me: profiled Andrew Ferguson, President Trump's head of the Federal Trade Commission. Friends and adversaries call him a brilliant lawyer and savvy political operator. Where they differ is over the perception that he is carrying water for the White House. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Trump's FTC Chairman Is Becoming MAGA’s Answer to Lina Khan
Andrew Ferguson is maintaining the agency’s focus on tech giants and putting new muscle behind longstanding conservative complaints.
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Scoop: Attorney General Pam Bondi has fired her personal ethics chief, Joseph Tirrell. Without explanation, she removes DOJ's career ethics office director who advised the most senior political appointees (such as Todd Blanche, Kash Patel) on conflicts. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
Bondi Fires Her Personal Ethics Chief as DOJ Purge Continues
Attorney General Pam Bondi has fired her personal ethics adviser, removing the Justice Department’s top official responsible for counseling the most senior political appointees, according to two peopl...
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New from me: profiled Andrew Ferguson, President Trump's head of the Federal Trade Commission. Friends and adversaries call him a brilliant lawyer and savvy political operator. Where they differ is over the perception that he is carrying water for the White House. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Trump's FTC Chairman Is Becoming MAGA’s Answer to Lina Khan
Andrew Ferguson is maintaining the agency’s focus on tech giants and putting new muscle behind longstanding conservative complaints.
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“wants to create a new jersey mango syndicate that sets a minimum price for the fruit” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/d...
It’s Indian Mango Season, and the Cutthroat Selling Frenzy Is On
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I’ll be off (and mostly offline) until July 28. In the meantime, check out this @businessweek.bsky.social feature investigation about the subminimum wage for workers with disabilities - Trump just scrapped Biden’s proposal to end it www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
It’s Legal to Pay US Workers With Disabilities as Little as 25¢ an Hour
Whether it stays that way is up to Trump.
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Google’s Plan to Buy Security Firm Wiz Gets Antitrust Review
Justice Department antitrust enforcers are reviewing whether Google’s planned $32 billion acquisition of cybersecurity company Wiz Inc. would illegally limit competition in the marketplace, according ...
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