{"id":26786,"date":"2020-06-16T21:57:55","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T21:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ceo-na.com\/?p=26786"},"modified":"2020-06-16T22:00:45","modified_gmt":"2020-06-16T22:00:45","slug":"ceo-jeff-bezos-called-to-testify","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/news\/ceo-jeff-bezos-called-to-testify\/","title":{"rendered":"<CEO Jeff Bezos called to testify>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congress calls on CEO Jeff Bezos to testify at Capitol Hill.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Amazon said yesterday that CEO Jeff Bezos is willing to testify\u00a0before the House to answer questions over an antitrust probe into the tech sector after Judiciary Committee leaders threatened last month to subpoena the CEO\u2019s testimony on Amazon\u2019s treatment of third-party vendors.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2020\/06\/15\/jeff-bezos-to-testify-before-congress-319798\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">According to POLITICO<\/a>,\u00a0a lawyer representing Amazon sent a letter to the\u00a0leaders saying the tech giant is &#8220;committed to cooperating with your inquiry,&#8221; including \u201cmaking Jeff Bezos available to testify at a hearing&#8221; with other big tech CEOs this summer. The letter added: &#8220;Of course, we will need to resolve a number of questions regarding timing, format, and outstanding document production issues, all necessarily framed by the extraordinary demands of the global pandemic (&#8230;)\u00a0Amazon remains deeply concerned that you cannot assure that the most sensitive corporate documents reflecting business strategy and other competitively sensitive information would be withheld from its many competitors,&#8221; concluded Robert Kelner of the firm Covington &amp; Burling.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2020\/06\/15\/877468410\/jeff-bezos-may-testify-before-congress-for-the-first-time-this-summer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NPR adds<\/a> that\u00a0The Federal Trade Commission and some state attorneys general are also investigating Amazon&#8217;s retail marketplace,\u00a0warehouse work conditions\u00a0and other parts of its business.\u00a0European Union regulators are expected to reveal formal charges against Amazon\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/amazon-to-face-antitrust-charges-from-eu-over-treatment-of-third-party-sellers-11591871818\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in the coming weeks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, Amazon\u00a0resisted demands\u00a0for Bezos to appear before the committee, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/06\/15\/amazon-ceo-jeff-bezos-willing-to-testify-before-house-antitrust-panel.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">per CNBC<\/a>, saying it would \u201cmake the appropriate executive available\u201d for testimony.<\/p>\n<p>If and when Bezos takes the stand, will be the second time a major tech CEO testifies at Capitol Hill, the last to do it was Facebook&#8217;s Mark Zuckerberg, when he had to explain the internet\u00a0to lawmakers during the Cambridge Analytica scandal in 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress calls on CEO Jeff Bezos to testify at Capitol  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":26773,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1338],"tags":[198,99,1385,658],"class_list":["post-26786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-amazon","tag-ceo","tag-ceo-northam","tag-jeff-bezos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26786"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26788,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26786\/revisions\/26788"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}