Jeff Bezos Exposes Alleged National Enquirer Extortion Scheme

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has published evidence of American Media Inc.’s (AMI) attempt to blackmail him into halting his investigation into their publication of private text messages he allegedly exchanged with his mistress.

“Of course I don’t want personal photos published, but I also won’t participate in their well-known practice of blackmail, political favors, political attacks and corruption,” Bezos wrote, explaining his decision to expose the blackmail attempt. “I prefer to stand up, roll this log over and see what crawls out.”

As he explains in the blog post, which includes threatening emails he received from AMI, Bezos then hired a private investigator to look into how those messages were obtained.

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