The Latest Breaking News from DOJ

Adobe Is Trying to Spend $20 Billion to Buy Back Its Swagger

The company sees buying Figma as a way to overhaul its business, but critics see echoes of Facebook’s alleged practice of buying up its competition. Regulators could still block it. 

Businessweek · Nov 7, 2022

US far-right group sparks legal firestorm over drive to monitor drop-box voting

Melody Jennings of Clean Elections USA teamed up with True the Vote for project that echos Trump’s false claims about 2020

The Guardian - US · Nov 6, 2022

Judiciary Republicans hint at investigation into FBI, DOJ if they retake the House

Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee have asked the Justice Department and FBI for documents ahead of what they said will be a series of investigations if Republicans retake the House.

WEKU · Nov 5, 2022

Biden caved to GOP on election disinfo

DHS pulled back on a comprehensive effort to address disinformation to help election workers

Salon · Nov 2, 2022

Apple worker admits scamming iPhone maker out of more than $17 million, feds out of $1.8 million

Within three years of starting work at Apple in 2008, Dhirendra Prasad was defrauding the company, and over the next decade he scammed the Cupertino iPhone maker out of more than $17 million, federal authorities said after the 52-year-old pleaded guilty Tuesday.

Tribune News Service · Nov 2, 2022

Judge blocks Penguin Random House-Simon & Schuster merger

A federal judge blocked Penguin Random House's proposed purchase of Simon & Schuster, saying that the joining of two of the world's biggest publishers could "lessen competition."

WEKU · Nov 1, 2022

Judge blocks $2.2 billion merger of Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster

The DOJ has argued that the merger violates antitrust law and would harm competition.

Axios · Nov 1, 2022

Why Stephen King turned on his own publisher in a battle over the future of the book industry

Josh Marcus looks into why the horror king — and the Biden administration — has been trying to stop the big-money merger between Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster

The Independent UK · Nov 1, 2022

Judge blocks Penguin Random House from buying rival Simon & Schuster

Horror author Stephen King testified on behalf of the Biden administration in August trial

The Independent UK · Oct 31, 2022

3 ex-Proud Boys hired as Miami-Dade poll workers. Insurrection indictment costs 1 the job

MIAMI — Two former members of the Proud Boys — the far-right white nationalist extremist group that has become influential in Miami-Dade’s Republican Party — have qualified to serve as poll workers in Miami-Dade County and will be interacting with voters on Election Day.

Miami Herald · Oct 31, 2022