Rima Alaily, Microsoft's corporate VP and deputy general counsel for the competition and market regulation group, sent a letter to the FTC's Office of the Inspector General (OIG) yesterday urging IG Andrew Katsaros to take a look inside his house to see whether the information first reported by Bloomberg last week was leaked to the press.

Now, Microsoft’s corporate vice president and deputy general counsel Rima Alaily is accusing FTC management of leaking details of the probe, in violation of the agency’s own e

Microsoft accused the U.S. Federal Trade Commission of violating its ethics standards by leaking an investigation to the press.

Microsoft wants the Federal Trade Commission to examine whether the agency violated its own rules by allegedly leaking information related to a reported antitrust investigation into the Redmond, Wash.