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Title: Never get between an Apple antitrust monitor and his per diem Post by: HCK on December 06, 2013, 02:42:51 am Never get between an Apple antitrust monitor and his per diem
Tempers flared and motions flew when Apple balked at $138,432 for two weeks work. <p>FORTUNE -- My colleague Roger Parloff has posted a fascinating back-channel account of the rapidly deteriorating relations between Apple (AAPL) and Michael Bromwich, its court-appointed e-book antitrust monitor.</p> <p>The trigger, as it so often is, was money.</p> <p>"On October 24," Parloff reports, "Apple liaison [Kyle] Andeer angered Bromwich by sending him an email questioning Bromwich's proposed $1,100 hourly fee and MORE (http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2013/12/03/apple-antitrust-bromwich-cote/)<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tech.fortune.cnn.com&blog=8466345&post=128271&subd=fortunebrainstormtech&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" /><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/fortuneapple20/~4/c2jkuMAVrFE" height="1" width="1"/> Source: Never get between an Apple antitrust monitor and his per diem (http://rss.cnn.com/~r/fortuneapple20/~3/c2jkuMAVrFE/http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2013/12/03/apple-antitrust-bromwich-cote/#commentshttp://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2013/12/03/apple-antitrust-bromwich-cote/feed/atom/) |