2026年5月27日 / 美国东部时间下午3:40 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻
负责监督司法部反垄断执法工作的领先候选人一直是科技行业的批评者，同时是一名政府律师，曾在特朗普总统第一任期内牵头打击社交媒体公司。
熟悉此事的消息人士告诉哥伦比亚广播公司新闻，亚当·坎迪布正被考虑出任反垄断部门助理司法部长。他目前担任联邦通信委员会总法律顾问，为主席布伦丹·卡尔工作。
坎迪布未立即回应置评请求。
负责反垄断事务的代理助理司法部长奥米德·阿塞菲曾监督与演唱会和票务巨头Live Nation的有争议和解协议，他将于下月离职。他早计划在6月离职，届时他的第一个孩子将出生。
特朗普政府高级官员仍在考虑候选人担任司法部反垄断主管这一关键职位，该职位负责监督并购交易并防范价格操纵。
档案：亚当·坎迪布 密歇根州立大学
坎迪布此前是振兴美国中心的高级研究员，该中心是由白宫行政管理和预算局局长拉塞尔·沃特创立的保守派智库。
消息人士称，最近几周接受该职位面试的其他人包括保罗·哈斯汀斯律师事务所反垄断业务联合主席、前司法部律师迈克·默里，以及为众议院共和党人工作的律师亚当·塞拉。
尚未做出最终决定。白宫发言人表示，目前没有相关人事任命公告。
无论谁被选中，都将负责审查具有重大影响的并购交易，包括华纳兄弟与派拉蒙天空之舞——哥伦比亚广播公司母公司——之间的待合并交易。
阿塞菲的前任盖尔·斯莱特于2月被解雇，此前她与时任司法部长帕姆·邦迪、副司法部长托德·布兰奇及其团队多次发生冲突，之后阿塞菲升任代理助理司法部长。
阿塞菲当时曾告诉白宫法律顾问大卫·沃林顿等人，他将于6月因家庭原因离职。
司法部发言人在一份声明中表示：“奥米德·阿塞菲一直是我们反垄断部门的宝贵领导者，我们感谢他为国家服务的时光。”
在接受这个临时职位后不久接受哥伦比亚广播公司新闻采访时，阿塞菲表示，他希望将时间集中在提起能直接影响普通美国人钱包的反垄断执法案件上。
在一系列高调的和解协议之后，反垄断鹰派认为特朗普的第二任政府对企业并购更为宽松。
“和解的规模非常清楚地表明，特朗普第二任期内的反垄断工作已经形同虚设，”里德·肖沃尔特说道，他曾在拜登政府时期担任司法部反垄断政策法律顾问，目前正在竞选国会议员。
在斯莱特被罢免约一个月后——当时司法部和数十个州正在就针对Ticketmaster母公司Live Nation的高风险垄断案件进行审理——司法部宣布与该公司达成和解。此前，由于Live Nation和其他公司聘请了特朗普的盟友顾问和律师来推动和解协议，政府内部的紧张局势日益加剧。
Live Nation的和解公告让许多参与此案的州以及司法部的一些审判律师感到意外。
“理想情况下，鉴于工作人员最了解案件的事实和理论，他们的意见和参与对本部门的决策至关重要，尤其是在对美国民众如此重要的问题上，”一位要求匿名的现任司法部审判律师说道。
消息人士称，Live Nation案件的谈判团队与审判团队是分开的。
由30个州组成的联盟决定不签署和解协议，选择继续进行审判。今年4月，纽约联邦法官作出有利于他们的裁决，认定Live Nation及其Ticketmaster部门构成非法垄断。
Conservative tech critic seen as leading candidate to oversee DOJ’s antitrust division, sources say
May 27, 2026 / 3:40 PM EDT / CBS News
The leading candidate to oversee the Justice Department’s antimonopoly enforcement has been a critic of the tech sector and is a government lawyer who led an effort to crack down on social media companies during President Trump’s first term.
Adam Candeub is being considered for assistant attorney general for the Antitrust Division, sources familiar with the matter told CBS News. He currently serves as the Federal Communications Commission’s general counsel, working for Chairman Brendan Carr.
Candeub did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Omeed Assefi, the acting assistant attorney general for antitrust, who oversaw a controversial settlement with concert and ticket giant Live Nation, is departing next month. He had long planned to exit in June, when his first child is due.
Senior Trump administration officials are still considering candidates to take on the crucial role of DOJ antitrust chief, a position that oversees mergers and acquisitions and protects against price fixing.
File: Adam Candeub Michigan State University
Candeub was previously a senior fellow at the Center for Renewing America, a conservative think tank founded by Russell Vought, director of the White House Office of Management and Budget.
Others who have been interviewed for the post in recent weeks include Mike Murray, a former Justice Department lawyer who co-chairs the antitrust practice at Paul Hastings LLP, and Adam Cella, a lawyer who works for House Republicans, some of the sources said.
A final decision had not been made. A White House spokeswoman said there were no personnel announcements at this time.
Whoever is chosen will be in charge of reviewing highly consequential mergers, including the pending merger between Warner Bros. and Paramount Skydance, the parent company of CBS News.
Assefi ascended to the acting assistant attorney general role after his predecessor, Gail Slater, was terminated in February after a series of clashes with then-Attorney General Pam Bondi, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche and their team.
Assefi at the time had told White House counsel David Warrington and others that he would leave in June for family reasons.
“Omeed Assefi has been a valuable leader in our Antitrust Division, and we are grateful for his time serving the nation,” a Justice Department spokesperson said in a statement.
In an interview with CBS News shortly after accepting the temporary post, Assefi said he hoped to focus his time on bringing antitrust enforcement cases that would have a direct impact on the wallets of everyday Americans.
Antitrust hawks have viewed Mr. Trump’s second administration as more lenient on corporate mergers, following a series of high-profile settlements.
“The level of settlements has made it quite clear that antitrust is dead during Trump’s second term,” said Reed Showalter, a former Justice Department counsel on antitrust policy during the Biden administration who is now running for Congress.
About a month after Slater’s ouster — as the Justice Department and dozens of states were in the middle of a high-stakes monopoly case against Ticketmaster’s parent company Live Nation — the Justice Department announced it had reached a settlement with the company. That came after growing tensions within the administration as Live Nation and other companies hired Trump-allied consultants and lawyers to advocate for settlements.
The Live Nation announcement blindsided many of the states involved in the case, as well as some of the Justice Department’s own trial attorneys.
“Ideally, given that staff were most closely connected to the facts and theory about the case, their input and involvement would have been essential to the division’s decision-making, especially surrounding such a significant matter to the American people,” said a current Justice Department trial attorney who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
The negotiating team on the Live Nation case was separate from the trial team, sources said.
A coalition of 30 states decided not to sign on to the settlement and chose to proceed with the trial. In April, a New York federal judge handed them a victory, finding that Live Nation and its Ticketmaster unit had operated as an illegal monopoly.
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