Whistleblower: The Tipline for 17 June 2020

If the Department of Justice’s antitrust division is mentioned on the front page of your newspaper this morning, it's not for securing a 40-month prison sentence for the former chief executive of a national food brand. House Judiciary Committee chair Jerrold Nadler announced on Tuesday that he had subpoenaed two DOJ whistleblowers to testify next week about the “unprecedented politicisation” of the agency. Nadler said one of the whistleblowers, Antitrust Division attorney John Elias, “can speak to improperly motivated activity”.