Oregon A.G. Seeks Delay of Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger, Suggests DOJ Approval Was 'Corrupt'

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3. A very careful accusation:

Dan Rayfield, the state’s A.G., has asked Paramount Skydance to turn over records related to its lobbying of the White House and the DOJ, suggesting in a court filing that the approval may have been “the product of a corrupt bargain.”

“The State would ordinarily afford great weight to a US DOJ approval based on the federal government’s significant investigatory resources,” the motion states. “If US DOJ’s merger approval was not the product of its investigation, however, the State would tend to afford it little to no credit.”

(same article)

There's a lot left unsaid in that statement, but you know what they mean.