Five years ago, Justice Department leadership gathered in this building with U.S. Attorneys and leaders of federal law enforcement agencies to make public their bold vision — an inter-agency effort designed to protect the government — at all levels — from collusive schemes and antitrust crimes.
[1] These schemes — these crimes — target government spending on goods and services and do real harm to the public, who fund government and expect to receive the benefit of competition. The vision those leaders articulated five years ago was to join forces—to create a strike force — that leveraged the skills, abilities, resources, and people from each agency in a common effort.
