US politicians: Amazon lied to Congress – IT Pro – News

Five members of the US Congressional Committee have accused multiple Amazon top executives of lying or misleading Congress about the company’s business practices. Amazon denies the allegations.

The five members are considering a criminal trial over the alleged lies of the Amazon executives. they have in a letter to the chief executive from Amazon. Among those alleged to have lied include Jeff Bezos, who made a statement to Congress in July 2020, and thessociate general counsel of the company, Nate Sutton, who spoke to Congress a year earlier.

This is in response to two reports that appeared last week. Reuters on The Markup wrote that Amazon uses data from third-party sellers on the site for its own benefit to create private-label products. Amazon would also promote its own products rather than the products of the third parties. The Amazon top previously denied this. In the letter, lawmakers give Amazon one more chance to provide evidence for its previous statements to Congress.

Amazon debunked in a comment to Reuters that it misled the commission. “We have denied the related inaccurate reports and have sought to correct them.” Amazon said the company has an internal policy stating that data from individual sellers cannot be used for Amazon’s private-label products. “We will investigate the allegations that this policy has been violated and take appropriate action.”

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