1/ 🚨 AMAZON CRIME ALERT 🚨
Per @WSJ: Amazon’s stealing trade secrets from independent businesses to develop competing products.
We noticed they also lied to Congress about it. Which is, you know, a crime.
wsj.com/articles/amazo…
Per @WSJ: Amazon’s stealing trade secrets from independent businesses to develop competing products.
We noticed they also lied to Congress about it. Which is, you know, a crime.
wsj.com/articles/amazo…
2/ In July, under oath, Nate Sutton, Amazon's associate general counsel and a former DOJ antitrust attorney, told @RepJayapal that Amazon “do[es] not use any... specific seller data in creating our own private brand products.”
Watch him here: c-span.org/video/?c487093…
Watch him here: c-span.org/video/?c487093…
3/ WSJ’s reporting shows he lied. And yet, here’s Nate Sutton, getting sworn in, promising to tell the truth…. oops 🤷
4/ Just for fun, here’s House antitrust subcommittee Chairman @davidcicilline reminding Sutton he’s under oath 🙃
5/ Perjury is still a crime, even when Amazon does it.
“The Committee should make a criminal referral for perjury, and the Department of Justice should investigate what Mr. Sutton knew and when he knew it.” - Economic Liberties ED @sarahmillerdc
“The Committee should make a criminal referral for perjury, and the Department of Justice should investigate what Mr. Sutton knew and when he knew it.” - Economic Liberties ED @sarahmillerdc
6/ .@sarahmillerdc: “In addition, the DOJ should investigate what role Jeff Bezos, Jay Carney, and other senior executives played in developing that response, and what they know about the practice."
7/ "Bezos needs to testify under oath and explain why his corporation’s agents are lying to Congress.”
Catch our full statement here: economicliberties.us/latest-news/pe…
Catch our full statement here: economicliberties.us/latest-news/pe…
