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well holy shit medium.com/@jeffreypbezos…
This alleged extortionate conduct by AMI is, among other things, intensely embarrassing to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York. And it is not advisable to be intensely embarrassing to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York.
From the AMI nonprosecution agreement. justice.gov/usao-sdny/pres…
I love this 2011 profile of Marty Singer (Bezos' lawyer in this mess) a great deal. nytimes.com/2011/05/22/bus…
Further background: SDNY recently let AMI off the hook for a campaign finance violation in the Michael Cohen case based on their promise that they'd be good boys and girls. If they've been ignoring that promise doing other dirty deeds, that's embarrassing. justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/m…
SDNY is not in a hurry to respond to my request for comment this pleasant evening.
I think this instinct is right for an avg media co. Absent AMI’s known pattern of behavior and a non-pros agreement (which has a bunch of other charges that can spring back), it’d be out of the question. But I think we need to watch SDNY carefully here.
As we think about the situation law enforcement is confronting here, let’s not forget the story about the Trump White House threatening @JoeNBC and @morningmika with what AMI was gonna do. theatlantic.com/politics/archi…
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