Lead Prosecutor Stays

Intel Corp., just weeks away from the start of its antitrust trial, failed in a bid to disqualify the government's top lawyer in the case, according to documents filed at the Federal Trade Commission. No reason was given. Intel had asked that Richard Parker, senior deputy director of the FTC's Bureau of Competition, be removed as lead prosecuting attorney at the trial that begins March 9. Parker has ties to Advanced Micro Devices, an Intel rival that is expected to testify.