Lawyers at the Federal Trade Committee (FTC) asked the Federal Judge on Wednesday to delay the consumer protection trial against Amazon for two months, saying that employment losses and a possible office movement may hinder its ability to prepare.
“We have lost employees at the agency, in our department and in our cases,” Jonathan Cohen, a lawyer for the Federal Trade Committee, said in a hearing in Washington. according to CNBC. Cohen also warned that the sudden sudden step for the agency may have disrupted its preparation, CNBC Reports.
The Federal Trade Committee has recently ended about ten monitoring employees, freedom I mentioned for the first time. So far, some of the broader discounts have been fueled by the Ministry of Governmental efficiency in Illon Musk, which occurred in agencies, including Consumer Financial Protection Office and Ministry of Education. The FTC employees were recently informed by DOGE that they need to move to an office that was wiped from the USAID in the coming months, Bloomberg I mentioned.
In response to Judge John Chun’s question about how the FTC resources issue differently within two months, “Cohen admitted that” it cannot guarantee whether things will not be worse “,” CNBC Reports. “But there are a lot of reasons for belief … Maybe we have experienced a severe unit, at least for a short time.”
The Amazon Prime trial was initially scheduled to start on September 22. It is said that John Huston, who was arguing on behalf of Amazon, was said to have prompted the Federal Trade Committee attempt to delay the trial, saying that the government did not show that it does not have the resources that must be moved in the course. “What I heard is that they have the entire trial team still sound. Histon said, as I mentioned before CNBC. “By the way, in the government and private sector, I have never heard of the office’s move for more than a few days.”
