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⚠️ [CNBC] DOJ charges six people in scheme to bribe Amazon employees

:open_mouth::pensive::angry: Just now, from CNBC. I bolded some text.

The parties alleged to have participated in criminal behavior are 3P consultants–have you used any of these? :grimacing: Be very careful out there!

Moderator edit(Ale_Amazon): Removed external URL.

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UPDATE DEC 4 2020

Dec 1, 2020 ORDER CONTINUING TRIAL DATE as to Ephraim Rosenberg, Joseph Nilsen, Hadis Nuhanovic, Kristen Leccese, and Rohit Kadimisetty by Judge Richard A. Jones. The parties’ 63 Stipulated MOTION to Continue Trial Date and Pretrial Motions Deadline is GRANTED. Jury Trial is continued to 1/10/2022 at 9:00 AM in Courtroom 13106 before Judge Richard A. Jones. All pretrial motions, including motions in limine, shall be filed no later than 11/4/2021. (cc: PTS/USPO, USMO) (VE) (Entered: 12/01/2020)


Meanwhile, does anyone know what this means?
A protective order for the DOJ? :confused:

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The Amazon Anticompetitive Agreements Class Action Lawsuit is Audrey Wells v. Amazon.com Inc., et al. , in the Superior Court of Québec, District of Montreal, Canada

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:information_source: As a friendly reminder, the focus of this thread is not necessarily on Amazon’s alleged corporate crimes against Seller and customer humanity–or any other company’s, for that matter–but more so on the alleged actions of the conspirators named in the indictment, and how Amazon’s practices, policies, and procedures perhaps facilitated such actions, either on the front end (allowing Seller black hat shenanigans, making Sellers desperate, fostering a culture of so-called consultants, etc) or the back end (lack of adequate personnel standards, lack of oversight or supervision, etc).

October 15 is Thursday–hoping for some additional info or updates. :crossed_fingers:

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@gusfirefly, as I stated when first asked…

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From an article I had not seen–some good questions about Amazon’s possible culpability in this case, particularly to @M_L_H’s and @gusfirefly’s points of the “employees” involved–how much of employees were they, in terms of supervision, benefits, upline, hiring and firing, etc?

Search online for the full version.
Excerpts below, bolding mine.

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Though due process, under the law, must take place, I also know that what the DOJ indictments state is ‘True’. I figured out the corruption and collusion last year while I experienced:

The Takedown:

  1. Under the protection of ‘Brand Registry’, take over an ASIN that is not ‘Brand Registered’ or does not have the protection of ‘Brand Registry’ (if such a protection even exists, I wonder)
  2. Change Images, Titles, Description, and input a new Brand Name (one that has Brand Registry protection)
  3. Contact Seller Support or use the ‘Report a violation’ tool within Brand Registry to place a violation on the Target Seller/ASIN. This ‘partially’ locks the Target Seller out of their account with limited privileges. The action also removes the listing/product from Amazon’s search
  4. Manage the Target Seller’s calls and/or emails to the Seller Support, Performance Notifications, Seller Performance and other Teams. This is the Loop aka Run-a-round.
  5. After 3 weeks or more, as the Product Listing is no longer in the Catalogue, ALL keyword rankings are lost which places the Product on Page 7+
  6. Bring back the Product Listing and Target Seller Account, if it suits them

In my case, #6 didn’t take place as I used some IT Technical Knowledge which enabled Amazon’s systems to Auto-generate 2 “Manually Yanked” support emails, which went to some other Team(s) that looked into the matter for resolution. Product Listing was out for 3 weeks.

The perpetrators tried to frame a couple of Chinese Sellers. My product competes against products ‘Shipped and Sold’ by Amazon. There are various individual US Sellers in the business arrangement with Amazon to sell these products. And, on other threads here, I have already put up graphs of Amazon’s use of its internal systems towards Keyword Ranking Manipulation of these products that compete against mine.

So, my experience from October 2019 clearly maps to what the DOJ Indictment states.

Ah, it’s almost October 15, 2020.

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This will be just first appearances when they have meetings they will offer deals if they roll up the whole network of Amazon workers

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UPDATE OCT 19 2020

  1. All five defendants plead NOT GUILTY.
  2. Jury trial scheduled for DEC 21 2020 at 9am PT/12pm ET.

Source: You can copy>paste the below text, use the terms below to search online, or manually copy the path in this photo:

THIS IS NOT A CLICKABLE LINK: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/18453023/united-states-v-rosenberg/

Courtlistener | docket | 18453023 | united-states-v-rosenberg

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Oh wow, I had not seen that two of the defendants were arrested.

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UPDATE DEC 4 2020

Dec 1, 2020 ORDER CONTINUING TRIAL DATE as to Ephraim Rosenberg, Joseph Nilsen, Hadis Nuhanovic, Kristen Leccese, and Rohit Kadimisetty by Judge Richard A. Jones. The parties’ 63 Stipulated MOTION to Continue Trial Date and Pretrial Motions Deadline is GRANTED. Jury Trial is continued to 1/10/2022 at 9:00 AM in Courtroom 13106 before Judge Richard A. Jones. All pretrial motions, including motions in limine, shall be filed no later than 11/4/2021. (cc: PTS/USPO, USMO) (VE) (Entered: 12/01/2020)


Meanwhile, does anyone know what this means?
A protective order for the DOJ? :confused:

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Seller_sUfyk7ajzPzny

Generally speaking, such motions are agreements between litigants (joint motions, as would appear to be the case here), or between one or another litigant and the presiding Bench, that sensitive information be shielded from public disclosure.

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Or it could be in response to death threats, or it could be somebody has turned State’s Evidence and is ratting out the others or a bigger fish. The details should be in the attachments (which are probably redacted/confidential).

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I am of the opinion it is ratting out bigger fish.
This whole mess could not have been done without inside help.

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This is what it looks like when Amazon uses its Internal Systems to manipulate Keyword Ranking for its own ‘Shipped and Sold by Amazon’ Products:

Color code:

Black: A competitor

Dark Blue: Amazon’s Product #1 (Notice, that is doesn’t move past ranking #30, is it a co-incidence that other Sellers on other threads are stating that their Keyword Rankings “fell” to 31??)

Red: Amazon’s Product #2 (Notice, that it comes out of nowhere straight to the top, does not move past ranking #100 and keeps bouncing back to the top. Amazon is trying to position this product within the Top 20 Position)

Light Blue: My Product, which is merrily bouncing around being affected by Amazon’s shenanigans.
The point at which the Red & Dark Blue Meet, My Product takes a fall in ranking, else it was heading to the top, Organically.

And, this is 1 Keyword. There are plenty more that display this manipulation.

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Hopefully, DOJ love has and is making those Canaries sing causing a few to speed up their shenanigans.

Below is a Weekly report that I receive - The Top 10 Increases in Reviews

This past week’s Top 2 Winners :drum: roll, please…

2 products of the same Brand (not Amazon’s Brand) that 'Ships from and Sold by Amazon’

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:thinking: Any possibility that the situations mentioned in these two topics–and which I can verify additional Sellers are also currently experiencing, though they have not posted–are yet another pay-to-slay attack from bribed Amazon “insiders”? More black hat tactics from supposed consultants?

I hope the DOJ investigation is ongoing and does not stop with just the current 6 indictments.


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They are continuing to do this over and over and Amazon needs to stop this. We have to go to the National News to get Amazons Attention. Look at this bounty and ransom they are doing now.

Hello Seller
How are you?
Tired of restoring ASIN XXXXXXXYHN?
I can help you.
Transfer 5 BTC to bitcoin wallet: 1D5kVVfdko2qs5Yn8AuBW1BoEWKo6BWJGt
And I will stop blocking your asin XXXXXXXYHN and tell you who ordered destroy your asins.
If there is no payment within 48 hours, I will start blocking all your ASIN`s:

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:musical_note::musical_note:Everybody wants to rule The World :musical_note::musical_note: - Tears for Fears

Let’s keep this thread for what it was created for: “DOJ charges six people in scheme to bribe Amazon employees

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⚠️ [CNBC] DOJ charges six people in scheme to bribe Amazon employees

:open_mouth::pensive::angry: Just now, from CNBC. I bolded some text.

The parties alleged to have participated in criminal behavior are 3P consultants–have you used any of these? :grimacing: Be very careful out there!

Moderator edit(Ale_Amazon): Removed external URL.

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⚠️ [CNBC] DOJ charges six people in scheme to bribe Amazon employees

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:open_mouth::pensive::angry: Just now, from CNBC. I bolded some text.

The parties alleged to have participated in criminal behavior are 3P consultants–have you used any of these? :grimacing: Be very careful out there!

Moderator edit(Ale_Amazon): Removed external URL.

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UPDATE DEC 4 2020

Dec 1, 2020 ORDER CONTINUING TRIAL DATE as to Ephraim Rosenberg, Joseph Nilsen, Hadis Nuhanovic, Kristen Leccese, and Rohit Kadimisetty by Judge Richard A. Jones. The parties’ 63 Stipulated MOTION to Continue Trial Date and Pretrial Motions Deadline is GRANTED. Jury Trial is continued to 1/10/2022 at 9:00 AM in Courtroom 13106 before Judge Richard A. Jones. All pretrial motions, including motions in limine, shall be filed no later than 11/4/2021. (cc: PTS/USPO, USMO) (VE) (Entered: 12/01/2020)


Meanwhile, does anyone know what this means?
A protective order for the DOJ? :confused:

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Most helpful replyThis reply was marked most helpful by the original poster.

UPDATE DEC 4 2020

Dec 1, 2020 ORDER CONTINUING TRIAL DATE as to Ephraim Rosenberg, Joseph Nilsen, Hadis Nuhanovic, Kristen Leccese, and Rohit Kadimisetty by Judge Richard A. Jones. The parties’ 63 Stipulated MOTION to Continue Trial Date and Pretrial Motions Deadline is GRANTED. Jury Trial is continued to 1/10/2022 at 9:00 AM in Courtroom 13106 before Judge Richard A. Jones. All pretrial motions, including motions in limine, shall be filed no later than 11/4/2021. (cc: PTS/USPO, USMO) (VE) (Entered: 12/01/2020)


Meanwhile, does anyone know what this means?
A protective order for the DOJ? :confused:

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Most helpful replyThis reply was marked most helpful by the original poster.

UPDATE DEC 4 2020

Dec 1, 2020 ORDER CONTINUING TRIAL DATE as to Ephraim Rosenberg, Joseph Nilsen, Hadis Nuhanovic, Kristen Leccese, and Rohit Kadimisetty by Judge Richard A. Jones. The parties’ 63 Stipulated MOTION to Continue Trial Date and Pretrial Motions Deadline is GRANTED. Jury Trial is continued to 1/10/2022 at 9:00 AM in Courtroom 13106 before Judge Richard A. Jones. All pretrial motions, including motions in limine, shall be filed no later than 11/4/2021. (cc: PTS/USPO, USMO) (VE) (Entered: 12/01/2020)


Meanwhile, does anyone know what this means?
A protective order for the DOJ? :confused:

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The Amazon Anticompetitive Agreements Class Action Lawsuit is Audrey Wells v. Amazon.com Inc., et al. , in the Superior Court of Québec, District of Montreal, Canada

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:information_source: As a friendly reminder, the focus of this thread is not necessarily on Amazon’s alleged corporate crimes against Seller and customer humanity–or any other company’s, for that matter–but more so on the alleged actions of the conspirators named in the indictment, and how Amazon’s practices, policies, and procedures perhaps facilitated such actions, either on the front end (allowing Seller black hat shenanigans, making Sellers desperate, fostering a culture of so-called consultants, etc) or the back end (lack of adequate personnel standards, lack of oversight or supervision, etc).

October 15 is Thursday–hoping for some additional info or updates. :crossed_fingers:

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Seller_jZWpyInw8RkYT

@gusfirefly, as I stated when first asked…

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From an article I had not seen–some good questions about Amazon’s possible culpability in this case, particularly to @M_L_H’s and @gusfirefly’s points of the “employees” involved–how much of employees were they, in terms of supervision, benefits, upline, hiring and firing, etc?

Search online for the full version.
Excerpts below, bolding mine.

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Seller_md9s3P39DQ1t3

Though due process, under the law, must take place, I also know that what the DOJ indictments state is ‘True’. I figured out the corruption and collusion last year while I experienced:

The Takedown:

  1. Under the protection of ‘Brand Registry’, take over an ASIN that is not ‘Brand Registered’ or does not have the protection of ‘Brand Registry’ (if such a protection even exists, I wonder)
  2. Change Images, Titles, Description, and input a new Brand Name (one that has Brand Registry protection)
  3. Contact Seller Support or use the ‘Report a violation’ tool within Brand Registry to place a violation on the Target Seller/ASIN. This ‘partially’ locks the Target Seller out of their account with limited privileges. The action also removes the listing/product from Amazon’s search
  4. Manage the Target Seller’s calls and/or emails to the Seller Support, Performance Notifications, Seller Performance and other Teams. This is the Loop aka Run-a-round.
  5. After 3 weeks or more, as the Product Listing is no longer in the Catalogue, ALL keyword rankings are lost which places the Product on Page 7+
  6. Bring back the Product Listing and Target Seller Account, if it suits them

In my case, #6 didn’t take place as I used some IT Technical Knowledge which enabled Amazon’s systems to Auto-generate 2 “Manually Yanked” support emails, which went to some other Team(s) that looked into the matter for resolution. Product Listing was out for 3 weeks.

The perpetrators tried to frame a couple of Chinese Sellers. My product competes against products ‘Shipped and Sold’ by Amazon. There are various individual US Sellers in the business arrangement with Amazon to sell these products. And, on other threads here, I have already put up graphs of Amazon’s use of its internal systems towards Keyword Ranking Manipulation of these products that compete against mine.

So, my experience from October 2019 clearly maps to what the DOJ Indictment states.

Ah, it’s almost October 15, 2020.

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This will be just first appearances when they have meetings they will offer deals if they roll up the whole network of Amazon workers

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UPDATE OCT 19 2020

  1. All five defendants plead NOT GUILTY.
  2. Jury trial scheduled for DEC 21 2020 at 9am PT/12pm ET.

Source: You can copy>paste the below text, use the terms below to search online, or manually copy the path in this photo:

THIS IS NOT A CLICKABLE LINK: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/18453023/united-states-v-rosenberg/

Courtlistener | docket | 18453023 | united-states-v-rosenberg

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Oh wow, I had not seen that two of the defendants were arrested.

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UPDATE DEC 4 2020

Dec 1, 2020 ORDER CONTINUING TRIAL DATE as to Ephraim Rosenberg, Joseph Nilsen, Hadis Nuhanovic, Kristen Leccese, and Rohit Kadimisetty by Judge Richard A. Jones. The parties’ 63 Stipulated MOTION to Continue Trial Date and Pretrial Motions Deadline is GRANTED. Jury Trial is continued to 1/10/2022 at 9:00 AM in Courtroom 13106 before Judge Richard A. Jones. All pretrial motions, including motions in limine, shall be filed no later than 11/4/2021. (cc: PTS/USPO, USMO) (VE) (Entered: 12/01/2020)


Meanwhile, does anyone know what this means?
A protective order for the DOJ? :confused:

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Seller_sUfyk7ajzPzny

Generally speaking, such motions are agreements between litigants (joint motions, as would appear to be the case here), or between one or another litigant and the presiding Bench, that sensitive information be shielded from public disclosure.

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Seller_T5Mv3ZCUSh7Zl

Or it could be in response to death threats, or it could be somebody has turned State’s Evidence and is ratting out the others or a bigger fish. The details should be in the attachments (which are probably redacted/confidential).

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Seller_oewHJOFDM7eyN

I am of the opinion it is ratting out bigger fish.
This whole mess could not have been done without inside help.

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Seller_md9s3P39DQ1t3

This is what it looks like when Amazon uses its Internal Systems to manipulate Keyword Ranking for its own ‘Shipped and Sold by Amazon’ Products:

Color code:

Black: A competitor

Dark Blue: Amazon’s Product #1 (Notice, that is doesn’t move past ranking #30, is it a co-incidence that other Sellers on other threads are stating that their Keyword Rankings “fell” to 31??)

Red: Amazon’s Product #2 (Notice, that it comes out of nowhere straight to the top, does not move past ranking #100 and keeps bouncing back to the top. Amazon is trying to position this product within the Top 20 Position)

Light Blue: My Product, which is merrily bouncing around being affected by Amazon’s shenanigans.
The point at which the Red & Dark Blue Meet, My Product takes a fall in ranking, else it was heading to the top, Organically.

And, this is 1 Keyword. There are plenty more that display this manipulation.

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Seller_md9s3P39DQ1t3

Hopefully, DOJ love has and is making those Canaries sing causing a few to speed up their shenanigans.

Below is a Weekly report that I receive - The Top 10 Increases in Reviews

This past week’s Top 2 Winners :drum: roll, please…

2 products of the same Brand (not Amazon’s Brand) that 'Ships from and Sold by Amazon’

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Seller_jZWpyInw8RkYT

:thinking: Any possibility that the situations mentioned in these two topics–and which I can verify additional Sellers are also currently experiencing, though they have not posted–are yet another pay-to-slay attack from bribed Amazon “insiders”? More black hat tactics from supposed consultants?

I hope the DOJ investigation is ongoing and does not stop with just the current 6 indictments.


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Seller_Rsfd5ORLFFWo3

They are continuing to do this over and over and Amazon needs to stop this. We have to go to the National News to get Amazons Attention. Look at this bounty and ransom they are doing now.

Hello Seller
How are you?
Tired of restoring ASIN XXXXXXXYHN?
I can help you.
Transfer 5 BTC to bitcoin wallet: 1D5kVVfdko2qs5Yn8AuBW1BoEWKo6BWJGt
And I will stop blocking your asin XXXXXXXYHN and tell you who ordered destroy your asins.
If there is no payment within 48 hours, I will start blocking all your ASIN`s:

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Seller_md9s3P39DQ1t3

:musical_note::musical_note:Everybody wants to rule The World :musical_note::musical_note: - Tears for Fears

Let’s keep this thread for what it was created for: “DOJ charges six people in scheme to bribe Amazon employees

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Seller_md9s3P39DQ1t3

The Amazon Anticompetitive Agreements Class Action Lawsuit is Audrey Wells v. Amazon.com Inc., et al. , in the Superior Court of Québec, District of Montreal, Canada

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The Amazon Anticompetitive Agreements Class Action Lawsuit is Audrey Wells v. Amazon.com Inc., et al. , in the Superior Court of Québec, District of Montreal, Canada

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:information_source: As a friendly reminder, the focus of this thread is not necessarily on Amazon’s alleged corporate crimes against Seller and customer humanity–or any other company’s, for that matter–but more so on the alleged actions of the conspirators named in the indictment, and how Amazon’s practices, policies, and procedures perhaps facilitated such actions, either on the front end (allowing Seller black hat shenanigans, making Sellers desperate, fostering a culture of so-called consultants, etc) or the back end (lack of adequate personnel standards, lack of oversight or supervision, etc).

October 15 is Thursday–hoping for some additional info or updates. :crossed_fingers:

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Seller_jZWpyInw8RkYT

:information_source: As a friendly reminder, the focus of this thread is not necessarily on Amazon’s alleged corporate crimes against Seller and customer humanity–or any other company’s, for that matter–but more so on the alleged actions of the conspirators named in the indictment, and how Amazon’s practices, policies, and procedures perhaps facilitated such actions, either on the front end (allowing Seller black hat shenanigans, making Sellers desperate, fostering a culture of so-called consultants, etc) or the back end (lack of adequate personnel standards, lack of oversight or supervision, etc).

October 15 is Thursday–hoping for some additional info or updates. :crossed_fingers:

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@gusfirefly, as I stated when first asked…

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@gusfirefly, as I stated when first asked…

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From an article I had not seen–some good questions about Amazon’s possible culpability in this case, particularly to @M_L_H’s and @gusfirefly’s points of the “employees” involved–how much of employees were they, in terms of supervision, benefits, upline, hiring and firing, etc?

Search online for the full version.
Excerpts below, bolding mine.

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Seller_jZWpyInw8RkYT

From an article I had not seen–some good questions about Amazon’s possible culpability in this case, particularly to @M_L_H’s and @gusfirefly’s points of the “employees” involved–how much of employees were they, in terms of supervision, benefits, upline, hiring and firing, etc?

Search online for the full version.
Excerpts below, bolding mine.

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Seller_md9s3P39DQ1t3

Though due process, under the law, must take place, I also know that what the DOJ indictments state is ‘True’. I figured out the corruption and collusion last year while I experienced:

The Takedown:

  1. Under the protection of ‘Brand Registry’, take over an ASIN that is not ‘Brand Registered’ or does not have the protection of ‘Brand Registry’ (if such a protection even exists, I wonder)
  2. Change Images, Titles, Description, and input a new Brand Name (one that has Brand Registry protection)
  3. Contact Seller Support or use the ‘Report a violation’ tool within Brand Registry to place a violation on the Target Seller/ASIN. This ‘partially’ locks the Target Seller out of their account with limited privileges. The action also removes the listing/product from Amazon’s search
  4. Manage the Target Seller’s calls and/or emails to the Seller Support, Performance Notifications, Seller Performance and other Teams. This is the Loop aka Run-a-round.
  5. After 3 weeks or more, as the Product Listing is no longer in the Catalogue, ALL keyword rankings are lost which places the Product on Page 7+
  6. Bring back the Product Listing and Target Seller Account, if it suits them

In my case, #6 didn’t take place as I used some IT Technical Knowledge which enabled Amazon’s systems to Auto-generate 2 “Manually Yanked” support emails, which went to some other Team(s) that looked into the matter for resolution. Product Listing was out for 3 weeks.

The perpetrators tried to frame a couple of Chinese Sellers. My product competes against products ‘Shipped and Sold’ by Amazon. There are various individual US Sellers in the business arrangement with Amazon to sell these products. And, on other threads here, I have already put up graphs of Amazon’s use of its internal systems towards Keyword Ranking Manipulation of these products that compete against mine.

So, my experience from October 2019 clearly maps to what the DOJ Indictment states.

Ah, it’s almost October 15, 2020.

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Seller_md9s3P39DQ1t3

Though due process, under the law, must take place, I also know that what the DOJ indictments state is ‘True’. I figured out the corruption and collusion last year while I experienced:

The Takedown:

  1. Under the protection of ‘Brand Registry’, take over an ASIN that is not ‘Brand Registered’ or does not have the protection of ‘Brand Registry’ (if such a protection even exists, I wonder)
  2. Change Images, Titles, Description, and input a new Brand Name (one that has Brand Registry protection)
  3. Contact Seller Support or use the ‘Report a violation’ tool within Brand Registry to place a violation on the Target Seller/ASIN. This ‘partially’ locks the Target Seller out of their account with limited privileges. The action also removes the listing/product from Amazon’s search
  4. Manage the Target Seller’s calls and/or emails to the Seller Support, Performance Notifications, Seller Performance and other Teams. This is the Loop aka Run-a-round.
  5. After 3 weeks or more, as the Product Listing is no longer in the Catalogue, ALL keyword rankings are lost which places the Product on Page 7+
  6. Bring back the Product Listing and Target Seller Account, if it suits them

In my case, #6 didn’t take place as I used some IT Technical Knowledge which enabled Amazon’s systems to Auto-generate 2 “Manually Yanked” support emails, which went to some other Team(s) that looked into the matter for resolution. Product Listing was out for 3 weeks.

The perpetrators tried to frame a couple of Chinese Sellers. My product competes against products ‘Shipped and Sold’ by Amazon. There are various individual US Sellers in the business arrangement with Amazon to sell these products. And, on other threads here, I have already put up graphs of Amazon’s use of its internal systems towards Keyword Ranking Manipulation of these products that compete against mine.

So, my experience from October 2019 clearly maps to what the DOJ Indictment states.

Ah, it’s almost October 15, 2020.

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This will be just first appearances when they have meetings they will offer deals if they roll up the whole network of Amazon workers

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This will be just first appearances when they have meetings they will offer deals if they roll up the whole network of Amazon workers

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UPDATE OCT 19 2020

  1. All five defendants plead NOT GUILTY.
  2. Jury trial scheduled for DEC 21 2020 at 9am PT/12pm ET.

Source: You can copy>paste the below text, use the terms below to search online, or manually copy the path in this photo:

THIS IS NOT A CLICKABLE LINK: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/18453023/united-states-v-rosenberg/

Courtlistener | docket | 18453023 | united-states-v-rosenberg

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UPDATE OCT 19 2020

  1. All five defendants plead NOT GUILTY.
  2. Jury trial scheduled for DEC 21 2020 at 9am PT/12pm ET.

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Seller_T0I28ZM6o8kU2

Oh wow, I had not seen that two of the defendants were arrested.

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Seller_T0I28ZM6o8kU2

Oh wow, I had not seen that two of the defendants were arrested.

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UPDATE DEC 4 2020

Dec 1, 2020 ORDER CONTINUING TRIAL DATE as to Ephraim Rosenberg, Joseph Nilsen, Hadis Nuhanovic, Kristen Leccese, and Rohit Kadimisetty by Judge Richard A. Jones. The parties’ 63 Stipulated MOTION to Continue Trial Date and Pretrial Motions Deadline is GRANTED. Jury Trial is continued to 1/10/2022 at 9:00 AM in Courtroom 13106 before Judge Richard A. Jones. All pretrial motions, including motions in limine, shall be filed no later than 11/4/2021. (cc: PTS/USPO, USMO) (VE) (Entered: 12/01/2020)


Meanwhile, does anyone know what this means?
A protective order for the DOJ? :confused:

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UPDATE DEC 4 2020

Dec 1, 2020 ORDER CONTINUING TRIAL DATE as to Ephraim Rosenberg, Joseph Nilsen, Hadis Nuhanovic, Kristen Leccese, and Rohit Kadimisetty by Judge Richard A. Jones. The parties’ 63 Stipulated MOTION to Continue Trial Date and Pretrial Motions Deadline is GRANTED. Jury Trial is continued to 1/10/2022 at 9:00 AM in Courtroom 13106 before Judge Richard A. Jones. All pretrial motions, including motions in limine, shall be filed no later than 11/4/2021. (cc: PTS/USPO, USMO) (VE) (Entered: 12/01/2020)


Meanwhile, does anyone know what this means?
A protective order for the DOJ? :confused:

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Seller_sUfyk7ajzPzny

Generally speaking, such motions are agreements between litigants (joint motions, as would appear to be the case here), or between one or another litigant and the presiding Bench, that sensitive information be shielded from public disclosure.

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Seller_sUfyk7ajzPzny

Generally speaking, such motions are agreements between litigants (joint motions, as would appear to be the case here), or between one or another litigant and the presiding Bench, that sensitive information be shielded from public disclosure.

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Seller_T5Mv3ZCUSh7Zl

Or it could be in response to death threats, or it could be somebody has turned State’s Evidence and is ratting out the others or a bigger fish. The details should be in the attachments (which are probably redacted/confidential).

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Seller_T5Mv3ZCUSh7Zl

Or it could be in response to death threats, or it could be somebody has turned State’s Evidence and is ratting out the others or a bigger fish. The details should be in the attachments (which are probably redacted/confidential).

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Seller_oewHJOFDM7eyN

I am of the opinion it is ratting out bigger fish.
This whole mess could not have been done without inside help.

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Seller_oewHJOFDM7eyN

I am of the opinion it is ratting out bigger fish.
This whole mess could not have been done without inside help.

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Seller_md9s3P39DQ1t3

This is what it looks like when Amazon uses its Internal Systems to manipulate Keyword Ranking for its own ‘Shipped and Sold by Amazon’ Products:

Color code:

Black: A competitor

Dark Blue: Amazon’s Product #1 (Notice, that is doesn’t move past ranking #30, is it a co-incidence that other Sellers on other threads are stating that their Keyword Rankings “fell” to 31??)

Red: Amazon’s Product #2 (Notice, that it comes out of nowhere straight to the top, does not move past ranking #100 and keeps bouncing back to the top. Amazon is trying to position this product within the Top 20 Position)

Light Blue: My Product, which is merrily bouncing around being affected by Amazon’s shenanigans.
The point at which the Red & Dark Blue Meet, My Product takes a fall in ranking, else it was heading to the top, Organically.

And, this is 1 Keyword. There are plenty more that display this manipulation.

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Seller_md9s3P39DQ1t3

This is what it looks like when Amazon uses its Internal Systems to manipulate Keyword Ranking for its own ‘Shipped and Sold by Amazon’ Products:

Color code:

Black: A competitor

Dark Blue: Amazon’s Product #1 (Notice, that is doesn’t move past ranking #30, is it a co-incidence that other Sellers on other threads are stating that their Keyword Rankings “fell” to 31??)

Red: Amazon’s Product #2 (Notice, that it comes out of nowhere straight to the top, does not move past ranking #100 and keeps bouncing back to the top. Amazon is trying to position this product within the Top 20 Position)

Light Blue: My Product, which is merrily bouncing around being affected by Amazon’s shenanigans.
The point at which the Red & Dark Blue Meet, My Product takes a fall in ranking, else it was heading to the top, Organically.

And, this is 1 Keyword. There are plenty more that display this manipulation.

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Seller_md9s3P39DQ1t3

Hopefully, DOJ love has and is making those Canaries sing causing a few to speed up their shenanigans.

Below is a Weekly report that I receive - The Top 10 Increases in Reviews

This past week’s Top 2 Winners :drum: roll, please…

2 products of the same Brand (not Amazon’s Brand) that 'Ships from and Sold by Amazon’

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Hopefully, DOJ love has and is making those Canaries sing causing a few to speed up their shenanigans.

Below is a Weekly report that I receive - The Top 10 Increases in Reviews

This past week’s Top 2 Winners :drum: roll, please…

2 products of the same Brand (not Amazon’s Brand) that 'Ships from and Sold by Amazon’

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Seller_jZWpyInw8RkYT

:thinking: Any possibility that the situations mentioned in these two topics–and which I can verify additional Sellers are also currently experiencing, though they have not posted–are yet another pay-to-slay attack from bribed Amazon “insiders”? More black hat tactics from supposed consultants?

I hope the DOJ investigation is ongoing and does not stop with just the current 6 indictments.


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Seller_jZWpyInw8RkYT

:thinking: Any possibility that the situations mentioned in these two topics–and which I can verify additional Sellers are also currently experiencing, though they have not posted–are yet another pay-to-slay attack from bribed Amazon “insiders”? More black hat tactics from supposed consultants?

I hope the DOJ investigation is ongoing and does not stop with just the current 6 indictments.


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Seller_Rsfd5ORLFFWo3

They are continuing to do this over and over and Amazon needs to stop this. We have to go to the National News to get Amazons Attention. Look at this bounty and ransom they are doing now.

Hello Seller
How are you?
Tired of restoring ASIN XXXXXXXYHN?
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Transfer 5 BTC to bitcoin wallet: 1D5kVVfdko2qs5Yn8AuBW1BoEWKo6BWJGt
And I will stop blocking your asin XXXXXXXYHN and tell you who ordered destroy your asins.
If there is no payment within 48 hours, I will start blocking all your ASIN`s:

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Seller_Rsfd5ORLFFWo3

They are continuing to do this over and over and Amazon needs to stop this. We have to go to the National News to get Amazons Attention. Look at this bounty and ransom they are doing now.

Hello Seller
How are you?
Tired of restoring ASIN XXXXXXXYHN?
I can help you.
Transfer 5 BTC to bitcoin wallet: 1D5kVVfdko2qs5Yn8AuBW1BoEWKo6BWJGt
And I will stop blocking your asin XXXXXXXYHN and tell you who ordered destroy your asins.
If there is no payment within 48 hours, I will start blocking all your ASIN`s:

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Seller_md9s3P39DQ1t3

:musical_note::musical_note:Everybody wants to rule The World :musical_note::musical_note: - Tears for Fears

Let’s keep this thread for what it was created for: “DOJ charges six people in scheme to bribe Amazon employees

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Seller_md9s3P39DQ1t3

:musical_note::musical_note:Everybody wants to rule The World :musical_note::musical_note: - Tears for Fears

Let’s keep this thread for what it was created for: “DOJ charges six people in scheme to bribe Amazon employees

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