When Charles James was in charge of the antitrust division at the Department of Justice in 2004, he also criticized Kroes' predecessor, Mario Monti, when he made the original antitrust ruling against Microsoft.

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Today's charges are the result of a joint investigation by the Department of Justice Antitrust Division's San Francisco Field Office and the FBI in San Francisco.

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The first was the resignation last week of Joel Klein, head of the Justice Department's antitrust division and the man who began the relentless legal pursuit of Microsoft that ended victoriously for the government in June, when Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson called for the company to be broken in two.

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