The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has revised its antitrust investigation of Amazon.com Inc., reorganized its investigation team, and re-interviewed potential witnesses, three people familiar with the matter said. , and raised questions about Amazon’s recent acquisition of MGM Studios.
The FTC has been investigating antitrust concerns over Amazon’s retail business and cloud computing services since 2019. Lina Khan, who became FTC chair last year and is known for her groundbreaking legal article on Amazon’s possible antitrust violations, has expressed interest in the investigation herself.
She assigned the Amazon case to John Newman. Newman, an antitrust professor and former Justice Department prosecutor, joined the FTC in December as deputy director of competition and restructured the team investigating Amazon. By contrast, during the Trump administration, the FTC chose to prioritize its antitrust investigation of Facebook, assigning only two lawyers to Amazon.
Before joining the FTC from Columbia Law School, Lena Khan was a staff member of the House Judiciary Antitrust Subcommittee, which spent 16 months investigating Google, Amazon, Apple and Meta. In the final 449-page report released by the House, she focused on the Google section. An FTC staff member is in charge of the Amazon section.
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