Trump poised to choose Simons as FTC chair

Ron Knox

10 August 2017

President Donald Trump has chosen former US Federal Trade Commission official and Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison partner Joseph Simons as the head of the commission, bypassing current acting chairman Maureen Ohlhausen.

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