FTC Hires Ex-Fannie Mae Counsel to Run Google Probe

The Federal Trade Commission hired a top Washington litigator to run its antitrust investigation of Google, signaling the agency may be preparing a lawsuit against the world’s largest search engine. The FTC is bringing in Beth Wilkinson, a partner with Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, who is known for winning the death sentence against Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh and litigating for companies including Pfizer and Philip Morris International General counsel of Fannie Mae from 2006 to 2008, Wilkinson, 49, had never lost a case she tried through mid-2010, according to the National Law Journal.