A former Trump Justice Department appointee blasted some of his ex-colleagues in a speech Monday, saying they “perverted justice and acted inconsistent with the rule of law” — and he named names.

Roger Alford was a top appointee in the DOJ’s antitrust division in both President Donald Trump’s first and second terms. He and his boss, DOJ antitrust division chief Gail Slater, are associated with a faction on the right that wants tougher antitrust enforcement. They take a more skeptical view of mergers in sectors where only a few major companies are competing.

But Alford was fired last month. And now, he’s gone public about what happened, outlining what he said amounted to a “pay-to-play” scandal, where companies paid well-connected outside MAGA influencers to try to get mergers approved, a

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