The U.S. Justice Department has
determined that Apple Inc has implemented significant improvements to its
antitrust compliance program and that a court-appointed monitor’s term does not
need extended, according to a court filing.
The Justice Department in a letter
filed late Monday in Manhattan federal court said its recommendation was
despite Apple’s “challenging relationship” with Michael Bromwich, who was named
monitor after the iPad maker was found liable for conspiring to raise e-book
prices.
The Justice Department said its
decision to not recommend extending the monitor-ship beyond its two-year term
was “not an easy one,” as Apple “never embraced a cooperative working
relationship with the monitor.”
But the department said it was
giving greater weight to Bromwich’s “assessment that Apple has put in place a
meaningful antitrust compliance program than to the difficult path it took to
achieve this result.”
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