Mehta fails to break up Google’s 90% monopoly
Judge Amit Mehta
Last month, DC Federal District Judge Amit Mehta failed to break up Google.
Even after he ruled on Dec. 5th that its 90% share of internet searches is a monopoly.
Dated Sept. 2nd
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/department-justice-wins-significant-remedies-against-google
Google pays no fines, damages, or punitive damages.
It also gets to expand its monopoly in artificial intelligence.
Despite its failure to comply with the court's orders and its withholding of evidence.
Judge Mehta’s solution is to:
Set up a committee of five to submit annual reports for six years, sealed from the public.
It is as if the Judge made himself the new CEO of Google and placed himself on its payroll.
“Google is a monopolist and it has acted as one to maintain its monopoly.”
Page 51 of 95 Pages
According to the Judge’s 29-page written statement dated August 1st, 2014, to the Senate Judiciary Committee, Mehta cannot:
read a balance sheet
analyze an investment prospectus
run a lemonade stand
Page 29 of 29 Pages
https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Mehta%20Senate%20Questionnaire%20Final.pdf
Google is worth $3.8 trillion.
It is the third most valuable company on the planet, according to NASDAQ, an American stock exchange.
Tip from the Antitrust Division of the Justice Department.
Final Judgment Google case 95 Pages dated Dec. 5th
https://www.justice.gov/atr/case/us-and-plaintiff-states-v-google-llc
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