Sheryl Sandberg May Testify in Antitrust Case

Seth Fiegerman2013-04-02 14:24:31 UTC

Sheryl Sandberg may need to take some time out from doing publicity for her new book later this month to testify in an ongoing antitrust case.

Bloomberg reports that the Facebook COO is scheduled to give a deposition for a case stemming from a 2011 lawsuit, which alleges that several prominent tech companies conspired to reduce competition for one another's employees in order to "fix and suppress" employee compensation.

Facebook is not one of the companies included in the lawsuit, but Sandberg's former employer Google is one of the defendants. Sandberg served as VP of global online sales and operations at Google until early 2008 when she left to join Facebook.

Sandberg is scheduled to answer questions relating to the case on April 23. Sandberg certainly wouldn't be the only big tech exec to testify in the case. Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin were scheduled to give oral statements last month.

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