The wife of a guy involved in a merger wants to be the one to judge if said merger is a good thing.
Isn't that a case of personal conflict ? I would think that a judge would not be able to take a case involving his own family, let alone his spouse, so why is that possible at the FTC ?
Oh, sorry, silly me. It's a GOVERNMENT institution - nothing to do with Justice there.

Perhaps an investigation how jobs at the FTC are distributed is also in order, seems a bit coincidental how the whole board of the FTC has links to the same law firm.
Who gave them the jobs at the FTC one wonders.