Hesse is a lawyer for Amazon and possibly other big tech firms. She also got the Linde-Praxair merger through. This would be a very bad choice for Biden in the antitrust slot. Hesse would subvert a bunch of Biden's policy agenda.
David Dayen @ddayen
15 Jan 2021
The Prospect and The Intercept have learned that Renata Hesse, a former Obama Justice Department official who then went on to work for Google and Amazon, is a leading contender to head up the DoJ Antitrust Division.
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More on potential Biden antitrust pick Renata Hesse. Here is she is bragging her firm got the two biggest mergers of the year approved, the $66B Monsanto-Bayer merger and the $70B Praxair-Linde merger.
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Replying to @matthewstoller
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Jan 16, 2021 · 1:36 AM UTC

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Does this stuff hurt the party’s case? We are a little worried about the Raytheon guy.