Former Amazon Employee Pleads Guilty to Involvement in Marketplace Fraud Ring

Former Amazon Employee Pleads Guilty to Involvement in Marketplace Fraud Ring
Workers fill boxes to ship at an Amazon fulfillment center in Romeoville, Ill., on Aug. 1, 2017. Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune/TNS
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By Katherine Anne Long From The Seattle Times

A former Amazon employee has pleaded guilty to involvement in a bribery scheme that helped some sellers on Amazon’s Marketplace platform for third-party merchants boost their sales and attack competitors.