{"id":45867,"date":"2022-03-09T13:20:14","date_gmt":"2022-03-09T21:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=45867"},"modified":"2022-03-09T17:20:45","modified_gmt":"2022-03-10T01:20:45","slug":"house-panel-refers-amazon-to-doj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=45867","title":{"rendered":"House panel refers Amazon to DOJ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bipartisan members of the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/idbzptgkcyywrtrywbmccwzzcgwqygyffdcktnqybbhcmb_nwjqddfyfnqptpjpkqyr.html?a=&amp;b=47834\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/idbzptgkcyywrtrywbmccwzzcgwqygyffdcktnqybbhcmb_nwjqddfyfnqptpjpkqyr.html?a%3D%26b%3D47834&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1646956164075000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2kyNHHN35byq1GtxtIafDc\">referred Amazon<\/a>\u00a0to the Department of Justice, saying\u00a0it sought to stymie their investigation into competition within the tech industry.<\/p>\n<p>In\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/dmhszlgkjttfblbtfrcjjfssjgfwtgtnnmjkldwtrrpjcc_nwjqddfyfnqptpjpkqyr.html?a=&amp;b=47834\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/dmhszlgkjttfblbtfrcjjfssjgfwtgtnnmjkldwtrrpjcc_nwjqddfyfnqptpjpkqyr.html?a%3D%26b%3D47834&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1646956164075000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3JFyIu_vLXQED3NmuLUMMk\">a 24-page letter,<\/a>\u00a0the lawmakers accused the company of misleading and stonewalling the committee.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWithout producing any evidence to the contrary, Amazon has left standing what appear to be false and misleading statements to the Committee. It has refused to turn over business documents or communications that would either corroborate its claims or correct the record,\u201d the members wrote.<\/p>\n<p>The lawmakers said Amazon lied and attempted to block the investigation in an effort to \u201cconceal the truth\u201d about how the company uses third-party sellers\u2019 data to help boost its own products in its own search results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bipartisan members of the House Judiciary&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45868,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45867\/revisions\/45868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}