FTC Chairman Leibowitz Says He’ll Leave Agency by Feb. 15

Jonathan Leibowitz , chairman of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, said he will leave for the private sector by Feb. 15 after eight years at the consumer-protection and antitrust enforcement agency.

Leibowitz, whose watch included a 20-month antitrust investigation of Google Inc. that left the search engine operator free to extend its dominance, said the agency has made progress on a number of consumer protection issues including health care, privacy, technology and so-called last-dollar fraud cases such as mortgage-modification scams.