FTC asks judge to delay Amazon trial due to resource constraints
The Federal Trade Commission asked a federal judge on Wednesday to delay a trial in a case accusing Amazon of using deceptive practices in its Prime subscription program, citing staffing and budgetary challenges at the government agency. “We have lost employees in the agency, in our division and on the case team.” When the judge asked if the agency’s challenges were due to recent cuts in the federal government, Cohen said it was, adding that some employees chose to leave the FTC following the “Fork in the road” email sent by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency in January. Currently, the agency’s legal team is “racing at considerable cost” to meet a late April deadline for discovery while at the same time dealing with restrictive rules on purchasing court documents and travel, Cohen explained. In April, FTC employees will have to spend time packing up and vacating their office building so they can potentially move to “an abandoned USAID facility,” Cohen said.
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