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April 28, 2020 01:19 pm
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Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/28/21239587/johs-hawley-bill-barr-justice-department-amazon-antitrust-investigation
Sen. Josh Hawley calls for a criminal antitrust probe into Amazon
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Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) is calling on federal prosecutors to open a criminal antitrust investigation into Amazon, as laid out in a letter released on Tuesday.
In his letter to Attorney General William Barr, Hawley presses the Justice Department to open an investigation into Amazon’s data tactics that were detailed in a report from The Wall Street Journal last week. In this report, the Journal outlined several instances in which Amazon employees peered into the sales data from independent sellers in order to develop its own competing, private label products.
“These practices are alarming for America’s small businesses even under ordinary circumstances,” Hawley wrote. “But at...
Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/28/21239587/johs-hawley-bill-barr-justice-department-amazon-antitrust-investigation
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