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FTC was like, totally going to block that Amazon iRobot deal.

Only the EU beat them to it.

Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, one of three Democrats that control the US antitrust agency, said at a Brussels conference on Wednesday that the FTC was already probing the transaction when Amazon dropped the deal.

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