{"id":4993,"date":"2022-03-09T16:38:19","date_gmt":"2022-03-09T15:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/03\/09\/amazon-referred-to-us-attorney-general-over-potentially-criminal-conduct\/"},"modified":"2022-03-09T16:38:19","modified_gmt":"2022-03-09T15:38:19","slug":"amazon-referred-to-us-attorney-general-over-potentially-criminal-conduct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/03\/09\/amazon-referred-to-us-attorney-general-over-potentially-criminal-conduct\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon referred to US attorney general over \u2018potentially criminal conduct\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>House judiciary committee asks Merrick Garland to investigate whether retail giant obstructed Congress with misleading conduct<\/p>\n<p>Members of the Democratic-controlled House judiciary committee have referred Amazon to the Department of Justice, alleging \u201cpotentially criminal conduct\u201d by the company and some of its senior executives.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter to the attorney general, Merrick Garland, lawmakers claim that Amazon had engaged in a \u201cpattern and practice of misleading conduct that suggests\u201d it was acting to influence the committee\u2019s investigation into online market competition.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/mar\/09\/amazon-attorney-general-potentially-criminal-conduct-house-judiciary-committee\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/8a9c850a06b52b8723fd962c5694e143b278d97a\/0_116_3500_2101\/master\/3500.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=9c933657e83fc1e7bad09737848965c4\" title=\"Amazon referred to US attorney general over \u2018potentially criminal conduct\u2019\" \/>House judiciary committee asks Merrick Garland to investigate whether retail giant obstructed Congress with misleading conduct<br \/>\nMembers of the Democratic-controlled House judiciary committee have referred Amazon to the Department of Justice, alleging \u201cpotentially criminal conduct\u201d by the company and some of its senior executives.<br \/>\nIn a letter to the attorney general, Merrick Garland, lawmakers claim that Amazon had engaged in a \u201cpattern and practice of misleading conduct that suggests\u201d it was acting to influence the committee\u2019s investigation into online market competition. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House judiciary committee asks Merrick Garland to investigate whether retail giant obstructed Congress with misleading conduct Members of the Democratic-controlled House judiciary committee have referred Amazon to the Department of Justice, alleging \u201cpotentially criminal conduct\u201d by the company and some of its senior executives. In a letter to the attorney general, Merrick Garland, lawmakers claim &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/03\/09\/amazon-referred-to-us-attorney-general-over-potentially-criminal-conduct\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Amazon referred to US attorney general over \u2018potentially criminal conduct\u2019<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4994,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4993"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}