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Todd Blanche: “In the antitrust space, the criminal part of the…”

Featuring: Todd Blanche, Republican | United States Deputy Attorney General | National

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DOJ announces antitrust probe of major meatpackers over beef prices

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Just the type of investigation. Can you confirm it's predominantly a criminal investigation at this point? I mean, these investigations, it depends. And so it depends. So yes, there are In the antitrust space, the criminal part of the investigation is done in almost every case in parallel with the civil investigation. The facts matter, intent matters, what we find from the bad participants, if there are bad participants, what role they had. So it's not as if, oh, this is just civil or oh, this is just criminal. (29:31–29:43)

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Asserts that antitrust investigations typically involve both criminal and civil components.

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