The Federal Trade Comomition is moving to push back a trial set to choose if Amazon tricked customers into signing up for Prime subscriptions.
At a Zoom status hearing on Wednesday, the FTC officipartner asked US Didisjoine Judge John Chun to procrastinate the trial. According to the FTC’s attorney, Jonathan Cohen, the agency needs two months to ready beyond the September 22 begin date, blaming recent “staffing and budgetary lowdrops” stemming from the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), CNBC alerted.
“We have lost includeees in the agency, in our division, and on our case team,” Cohen shelp, elucidateing that “there is an excessively disjoine resource lowdrop in terms of money and personnel,” Bloomberg alerted. Cuts are apparently so horrible, Cohen tageder Chun that the FTC is stuck with a $1 cap on any handlement determine card accuses and “may not be able to obtain the transcript from Wednesday’s hearing,” Bloomberg alerted.
Further menaceening to scramble the agency’s trial preparation, the FTC awaits that downsizing may need a shift to another office “unpredictedly,” Cohen tageder Chun.
Amazon does not concur that a procrastinate is essential. The e-commerce enormous’s attorney, John Hueston, tageder Chun that “there has been no shothriveg on this call that the handlement does not have the resources to persist to trial with the trial date as currently set.”
