2 Plead Guilty in Scheme to Manipulate Amazon Marketplace

2 Plead Guilty in Scheme to Manipulate Amazon Marketplace
The Amazon logo on the opening day of a new distribution center in Augny, near Metz, eastern France, on Sept. 23, 2021. Sebastien Bozon/AFP via Getty Images
The Associated Press
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SEATTLE—Two more defendants have pleaded guilty for their role in a multimillion-dollar scheme to manipulate the Amazon Marketplace e-commerce platform.

Six people have been charged in the conspiracy, which federal prosecutors say involved paying bribes to get Amazon employees and contractors to leak confidential data and to use that data to grant certain sellers a competitive advantage on Amazon Marketplace.