 "Signage that reads Time Warner is seen at the Time Warner Center in New York City, US.Photo: Reuters")
At the Department of Justice, staff members in the antitrust office have been doggedly investigating AT&T’s blockbuster $85.4 billion bid for Time Warner.
They have deposed the executives of both companies; questioned several media, telecommunications and technology rivals; and demanded thousands of pages of confidential documents from scores of businesses to discern if the deal would violate competition laws — and thus if it should go ahead at all. But eight months into the review, the small army of career antitrust officials is marching toward a great unknown.
For one thing, the Justice Department officials still don’t have a boss who will
