Between July 2017 and Sept. 2020, Rosenberg paid bribes directly and indirectly to Amazon employees in order to steal confidential data, as well as gain access to internal systems. In one case, Rosenberg made 33 different PayPal payments worth $18,650 to an Amazon employee in Seattle in exchange for confidential information about third-party seller accounts.
Most of his payments were for account āannotations,ā or an internal Amazon employee log of infractions on a sellersā account, which Rosenberg and another defendant, Joe Nilsen, covertly referred to as āfruitā in email correspondence.
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Previously unsealed court documents said Rosenberg allegedly sent a āveiled threatā to an Amazon employee at the companyās Seattle headquarters as part of the bribery scheme, Bloomberg reported. The documents also detailed the defendantsā elaborate efforts to dodge detection by authorities, including allegedly stuffing a llama-shaped ottoman with cash believed to be bribes, according to Bloomberg.
Rosenbergās guilty plea in March marked a reversal of his position on the case. He repeatedly denied prosecutorsā allegations and claimed in LinkedIn messages to CNBC he was being framed, as well as in posts on Reddit forums and Facebook groups. He later admitted he made false statements about the case and admitted to bribing Amazon employees in a public apology posted online.
Ed Rosenberg paid bribes directly, paid bribes indirectly, threatened an Amazon employee, lied about it, created a false narrative that he had been hacked, created a false narrative that he was framed, whined and complained and deflected.
Ed Rosenberg is GUILTY.
Untrustworthy.
Unscrupulous.
And unrepentant.
I believe in karma in life and judgement in death.
This is not the end.
Oh andā¦more than one Amazon Seller has told me that Ed did, in fact, harass them directly, as a competitor to a client.
Just because the DOJ didnāt find enough evidence to charge him, doesnāt mean it didnāt happen.