Source: The American Prospect
by David Dayen
“Attorney General Pam Bondi’s meager attempt at insult comedy in a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing this week is the kind of thing that many political observers call ‘dramatic’, when in reality it was boring deflection and obfuscation punctuated by lazy scandalmongering. But there was something interesting going on in that hearing on the other side of the panel. Four different senators asked Bondi about the antitrust division and its slide into pay-to-play corruption. Sens. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Mazie Hirono (D-HI), Cory Booker (D-NJ), and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) posed questions about how Bondi’s team overruled her antitrust enforcers to approve the Hewlett Packard Enterprise-Juniper Networks merger after pressure from MAGA lobbyists, how Live Nation has hired the same lobbyists to try to get a monopolization case thrown out, and how top antitrust deputies were fired for resisting lobbyist-infused deals.” (10/10/25)
https://prospect.org/power/2025-10-09-antitrust-pam-bondi-corruption-senate/