A federal judge’s headline-grabbing rebuke of Google’s “disturbing” effort to destroy evidence last week could become a powerful weapon in the Justice Department’s landmark effort to break up its search empire – and could haunt the company in court for years to come, according to legal experts. US District Judge James Donato – who is presiding over “Fortnite” maker Epic Games’ antitrust case targeting the Google Play app store – said during a Dec. 1 hearing that he had “never seen anything so egregious” after viewing “disturbing evidence” that Google used an auto-erase feature to delete reams of relevant employee chat logs it had…
