The Texas attorney general's office has hired three consultants for a multi...
SAN FRANCISCO/WASHINGTON - The Texas attorney general’s office has hired three consultants for a multi-state probe it is leading into Alphabet Inc’s Google, including an economist who worked with some of the firm’s major rivals and a lawyer who is a Microsoft veteran.
The three consultants are Roger Alford, until this year a deputy assistant attorney general in the Justice Department’s antitrust division; Eugene Burrus, an external adviser at McKinsey & Co who was assistant general counsel at Microsoft Corp; and Cristina Caffarra, an economist heading the European competition team at consultancy Charles River Associates.
A spokesman for Microsoft, which has complained about Google’s competitive tactics, did not provide immediate comment. “My position is that when working for a government body, I don’t need to do anything besides work pro bono,” she said. “I am not funded by anyone adverse to Google right now.”
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