Amazon tells US Congress Bezos will testify in tech power probe

A lawyer for the e-commerce company sent the US House Judiciary Committee a letter saying Amazon was ‘committed to cooperating with your inquiry and will make the appropriate executive available to testify’, according to the letter, a copy of which was seen by Bloomberg. ‘This includes making Jeff Bezos available to testify at a hearing with the other CEOs this summer,’ the letter said. — AP

Amazon.com Inc told congressional investigators examining the market power of the largest technology companies that it would make chief executive officer Jeff Bezos available to testify.

A lawyer for the e-commerce company sent the US House Judiciary Committee a letter on Sunday saying Amazon was “committed to cooperating with your inquiry and will make the appropriate executive available to testify”, according to the letter, a copy of which was seen by Bloomberg. “This includes making Jeff Bezos available to testify at a hearing with the other CEOs this summer,” the letter said.