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Antitrust & Trade Reg.

Mar. 13, 2024

California Antitrust Division chief threatens criminal enforcement

In a speech to the ABA, Paula Blizzard emphasized that she was talking about sending people to “county jail” not “club fed.”

Paula Blizzard, who leads the antitrust division at California Department of Justice, caught a room full of white-collar attorneys off guard last week when she warned she might send their clients to jail.

Speaking during a panel at the American Bar Association’s National Institute on White Collar Crime conference in San Francisco, Blizzard said she wants to bring back California’s era of criminal antitrust enforcement. This is even though...

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