House Committee asks Department of Justice to conduct an investigation AmazonWhat lawmakers consider criminal obstruction of Congress?

a letterThis letter was sent Wednesday to Attorney General Merrick Galrland. It is a bipartisan group that alleges Amazon misled Congress throughout their investigation into Big Tech’s competitive practices.

Particularly, the lawmakers focused on Amazon’s private label practices and collection of data from third-party sellers. Amazon’s false and misleading statements have been claimed by lawmakers to the House Committee. They then refuse to produce evidence “to either corroborate their claims or correct the record.”

“It appears to have done so to conceal the truth about its use of third-party sellers’ data to advantage its private-label business and its preferencing of private-label products in search results — subjects of the Committee’s investigation,” according to the letter, which was signed by Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., House Antitrust Subcommittee chair David Cicilline, D-R.I., and committee members Reps. Ken Buck, R-Colo., Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., and Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash.

The letter stated that “as a consequence, we have no other choice than to refer the matter to the Department of Justice in order to investigate whether Amazon or its executives obstructed Congress under applicable federal law.”

Amazon representatives did not immediately reply to my request for comment.

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