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Amazon asks for FTC head to step aside from antitrust probes

by Marcy Gordon
| June 30, 2021 11:30 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — Amazon is asking that the new head of the Federal Trade Commission step aside from antitrust investigations into the e-commerce giant, contending that her past public criticism of the company’s market power makes it impossible for her to be impartial.

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