The Justice Department’s top antitrust cop has been ousted amid reports of growing corporate influence over the office and alleged internal divisions over whether to crack down on corporate crimes. The move jeopardizes the future of key antitrust cases against some of the country’s biggest companies, including lawsuits against Live Nation, Visa, and Apple.

Assistant attorney general Gail Slater, head of the Justice Department’s antitrust division, exited her position last week following reports of tension with Attorney General Pam Bondi over how aggressively to pursue antitrust matters.

Those tensions were evident only ten days into the second Trump administration, when the Justice Department filed an antitrust suit against Hewlett Packard Enterprise, temporarily blocking the company’s $14 million merger with Juniper Networks, a wireless network competitor. But after a scorched-earth lobbying campaign by Hewlett-Packard, Justice Department lawyers allowed the merger to proceed with limited divestiture requirements, a move Slater reportedly opposed.