Roger Alford, formerly second-in-command of the antitrust division, called on a court to scrutinize the merger case that led ...

A former top official in the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) antitrust division slammed several members of the agency’s senior ...

A Justice Department official dismissed last month decried the influence of high-paid lobbyists in merger reviews and accused some of his former colleagues of undercutting antitrust enforcement.Former ...

Two officials were ousted from the Justice Department's antitrust division, following tension in a key office that fights ...

The Monday firings came after weeks of tension between the officials, Roger Alford and Bill Rinner, and Assistant Attorney General Gail Slater, who runs the antitrust division. That division is tasked ...

Fractures in the Trump administration's roughly six-month-old antitrust team are recasting doubts about its commitment to ...

Roger Alford, a former official during the first Trump administration who was Slater's top deputy, and Bill Rinner, a former counsel at hedge fund Apollo Global Management who was in charge of merger ...

Roger Alford, third from right, testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee in 2024 when he was still a law professor at Notre Dame University. (ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP via Getty Images ...

A DOJ official confirmed the firings, citing “insubordination.” CNN has reached out to Alford and Rinner for comment. CBS News was first to report the dismissals.

The officials, Roger Alford and Bill Rinner, were both top deputies to Assistant Attorney General Gail Slater, who leads the team.