Seven years of Amex: The Tipline for 4 October 2017

04 October 2017

On this day in 2010, the Department of Justice and seven states sued American Express, Visa and MasterCard in Brooklyn federal court, accusing the credit card companies of violating section 1 of the Sherman Act with their restrictions on merchants who accepted their cards.

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