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Jeff Bezos Accuses National Enquirer of Blackmail

posted by martyb on Friday February 08 2019, @08:31AM   Printer-friendly
from the bare-facts dept.

takyon writes:

Jeff Bezos Accuses National Enquirer of Blackmail

Jeff Bezos, Amazon's chief executive and the world's richest man, accused the owner of The National Enquirer on Thursday of trying "extortion and blackmail" to stop his investigation into how his private text messages and photos with his mistress were leaked to the tabloid.

In an extraordinarily personal online post, Mr. Bezos said intermediaries of David Pecker, the chairman of American Media Inc., the nation's biggest tabloid news publisher and owner of The National Enquirer, had approached him to stop his investigation. Mr. Bezos said he had been told that if he refused, the publisher would make risqué and intimate photos of the billionaire and his mistress, Lauren Sanchez, public.

[...] "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," Mr. Bezos wrote of A.M.I., explaining why he had decided to speak out. "I prefer to stand up, roll this log over and see what crawls out."

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  • (Score: 1, Troll) by realDonaldTrump on Friday February 08 2019, @08:46AM (4 children)

    by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Friday February 08 2019, @08:46AM (#798230) Homepage Journal

    When we make a deal, we can offer the carrot. We can offer the stick. Sometimes we offer both, to close that deal very quickly. David made Jeff Bozo a very fair offer. Peace & vocation. Or war & investigation.

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  • (Score: 5, Funny) by Bot on Friday February 08 2019, @09:06AM (1 child)

    by Bot (3902) on Friday February 08 2019, @09:06AM (#798237) Journal

    > we can offer the carrot. We can offer the stick. Sometimes we offer both
    Apparently, someone took pic of the stick instead....

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    • (Score: 0, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 08 2019, @09:31AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 08 2019, @09:31AM (#798240)

      Donald refers to plea bargaining?

  • (Score: 3, Funny) by DannyB on Friday February 08 2019, @03:18PM

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Friday February 08 2019, @03:18PM (#798325) Journal

    Donald, on one Stormy night, I heard that the stick is more like a misshapen mushroom.

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by DeathMonkey on Friday February 08 2019, @07:23PM

    by DeathMonkey (1380) on Friday February 08 2019, @07:23PM (#798488) Journal

    When we make a deal, we can offer the carrot. We can offer the stick. ... David made Jeff Bozo a very fair offer...

    And, sometimes we can offer immunity!

    Trump ally David Pecker cuts immunity deal with prosecutors [vox.com]