The House Judiciary Committee wrote to Attorney General Merrick Garland alerting him of potential 'criminal conduct by Amazon and certain of its executives,' according to a letter obtained by ABC News.
"Throughout the course of the Committee's investigation, Amazon attempted to cover up its lie by offering ever-shifting explanations of what it called its 'Seller Data Protection Policy,'" the letter says."Among other things, in written statements to the Committee, Amazon made a distinction between the"individual" seller data that Amazon supposedly protected and the"aggregated" seller data that its private-label business could use.
"After Amazon was caught in a lie and repeated misrepresentations, it stonewalled the Committee's efforts to uncover the truth. The Committee gave Amazon a final opportunity to provide evidence either correcting the record or corroborating the representations it had made to the Committee under oath and in written statements," the letter says. "Instead of taking advantage of this opportunity to provide clarity, however, Amazon offered conclusory denials of adverse facts.
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