Thomas B. Leary

Former FTC Commissioner whose January 17, 2002 prepared remarks, "The Essential Stability of Merger Policy in the United States," are the ultimate cited source — via Wikipedia's William Baxter entry — for the widely repeated "300 lawyers, 2,500 depositions, 66 million pages" description of United States v. IBM. He matters to this vault not for anything he is on record saying (his actual remarks have not yet been read — every ftc.gov URL variant tried across two sessions returned HTTP 403) but as the unread root of the vault's most persistent [unverified-quant] flag on this topic.

References

• claim-baxter-dismissed-ibm-case-same-day-att-breakup-finalized
• claim-time-1982-attributes-66-million-pages-to-ibm-spinoff-suits-not-doj-case
• question-verify-baxter-ibm-att-same-day-dismissal
• Captures: 10-inbox/raw/2026-07-09-hop-baxter-ibm-att-same-day.md, 10-inbox/raw/2026-07-24-did-baxter-dismiss-us-v-ibm-the-same.md