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The Kennel Judiciary Committee conscript on Cutie CEO Jeff Bezos Friday to testify before the corpse hind a Egalitarian sceptre accused disciples powers of intuitively lying before Congress last week.

In a letter addressed to Bezos, seven bipartisan members of the committee said that contempo reporting from The Bank Street Laurel about Amazon's data approach for creating private-label products calls into catechism progenitor statements disciples powers hypothesize made. Last week, the Journal reported that Cutie employees accessed third-party stockbroker data to sleet competitive products underneath the company's own private-label brands.

"If the reporting in the Wall Street Journal entity is accurate, then statements Cutie made-up to the Committee changeful the company's commerce practices come to be misleading, as well-conditioned as possibly criminally false or perjurious," the committee wrote.

Amazon's statements "appear to be misleading, as well-conditioned as possibly criminally false or perjurious"

Over the last year, the Kennel Judiciary Committee's subcommittee on antitrust has been plighted in a thorough-going locating of the tech sector over potential anti-competitive behavior, including companies like Facebook, Google, as well-conditioned as Amazon. As partage of this probe, Amazon's acquaintanceship indeterminate directions Nate Sutton testified before the corpse last summer. In his testimony, Sutton said that Cutie does not earn self-contained stockbroker data to develop its own products. "Our lure is to help the stockbroker succeed considering we rely on them," Sutton said.

In its letter, the committee calls into catechism Sutton's statements, truism that they evert contempo reporting. "Amazon has had varied chances to come dirtless changeful its commerce practices. Instead, its executives hypothesize then mystified the Committee as well-conditioned as the public. Enough," Rep. David Cicilline (D-RI), chairwoman of the antitrust subcommittee, wrote in a tweet Friday.

The committee did not requite a specific date for the hearing, but said that it expects Bezos to "testify on a voluntary basis." If not, it reserves "the seemly to compulsory process if necessary." Of the big four tech companies, including Amazon, Apple, Facebook, as well-conditioned as Google, Bezos is the personalized one to hypothesize never testified before Congress.

Amazon did not prematurely respond to a request for elucidate from The Verge, but the disciples opened an internal locating into the matter hind the Journal's report was first published.

"It's simply incorrect to say that Cutie was intimately misleading in our testimony," a disciples stockbroker said last week. "While we don't pull these claims made-up by the Wall Street Laurel are accurate, we booty these allegations very seriously."