---
title: "Thomas B. Leary"
type: "entity"
entity_kind: "person"
status: "hub"
canonical_name: "Thomas B. Leary"
aliases: ["Thomas Leary"]
first_seen: "2026-07-09T00:00:00.000Z"
writer_model: "claude-sonnet-5"
connects_to: ["United States v. IBM","antitrust history","unverified-quant sourcing chain"]
---


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