In worst Amazon review ever, House panel asks Department of Justice to investigate over “potentially criminal conduct.”
The 24-page letter highlighted articles from Reuters, the Wall Street Journal, Politico and The Markup that contradicted Amazon’s testimony in the committee’s probe into competition in digital markets during the last Congress. The lawmakers accused Amazon executives of lying when it denied using data from third-party sellers to compete with them or rigging search results to favor its own products.
“After Amazon was caught in a lie and repeated misrepresentations, it stonewalled the committee’s efforts to uncover the truth,” the document read. “The committee gave Amazon a final opportunity to provide evidence either correcting the record or corroborating the representations it had made to the committee under oath and in written statements.” But the company declined to submit materials that to “corroborate its claims or correct the record.
The text of the letter attributed some form of the words “lie,” “misled,” “obstruct” or “impede” specifically to Amazon’s behavior as many as 25 times. That averages out to more than once per page, which is an impressive feat, considering some pages were half- or mostly filled with citations.
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