{"id":9307,"date":"2020-05-05T13:40:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-05T13:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/?p=2541948"},"modified":"2020-05-05T13:40:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-05T13:40:00","slug":"jeff-bezos-is-being-called-to-testify-before-congress-over-misleading-statements-from-amazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/05\/05\/jeff-bezos-is-being-called-to-testify-before-congress-over-misleading-statements-from-amazon\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Bezos is being called to testify before Congress over \u2018misleading\u2019 statements from Amazon"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The House Judiciary Committee called on Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos Friday to testify before the body after a Democratic leader accused company officials of allegedly lying before Congress last week.<\/p>\n

In a letter addressed to Bezos, seven bipartisan members of the committee said that recent reporting from The Wall Street Journal <\/em>about Amazon’s data tactics for creating private-label products calls into question previous statements company officials have made. Last week, the Journal <\/em>reported that Amazon employees accessed third-party seller data to launch competing products under the company’s own private-label brands.<\/p>\n

“If the reporting in the Wall Street Journal<\/em> article is accurate, then statements Amazon made to the Committee about the company’s business practices appear to be misleading, and possibly criminally false or perjurious,” the committee wrote.<\/p>\n

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