Amazon asks US FTC to recuse Chairwoman Lina Khan, Retail News, ET Retail
Washington: Amazon.com Inc. on Wednesday filed a petition asking for the US Federal Commerce Fee Chairwoman Lina Khan to be recused on antitrust issues associated to the corporate, in response to paperwork filed with the company.
“Amazon.com, Inc. respectfully petitions the fee for recusal of Chair Lina Khan from any antitrust investigation, adjudication, litigation, or different continuing through which Amazon is a topic, goal or defendant for which Chair Khan’s prior public statements create the looks of her having prejudged details and/or authorized points related to the continuing,” the corporate stated in its submitting.
The company is investigating Amazon as a part of a sequence of probes underway into Huge Tech. It is usually probing Amazon’s deliberate buy of the US film studio MGM.
“Whereas now we have the utmost respect for FTC Chair Khan, her work for the Open Markets Institute (a longtime Amazon critic), legislation journal articles, and function as a chief writer of the Home Judiciary Committee Antitrust Subcommittee report all mirror preconceived views concerning the firm that she has repeatedly confirmed in media interviews,” an Amazon spokesperson stated in a press release.
The US FTC declined remark.
