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

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.