(PUBLIC) 👥 Amazon consultant Ed Rosenberg bribery case updates

[papy]

Logged into my reddit account, had THREE replies from Ed, all along these same lines, to posts where I linked the Ecommerce Bytes post about his guilty plea.

His reply:

for the notes in 2018. For being a casual user of the notes. This is like .00001% of what the accusations were and even that was missing extreme context.

My reply:

Ed, are you seriously out here trying to justify yourself?! You are GUILTY. You did these things INTENTIONALLY, knowing they were not only prohibited but also wrong. Your actions put your clients and their competitors at greater risk. You colluded with other criminals. You lied about it, trying to make up some story about hacking and/or being framed. And you tried to threaten and intimidate an Amazon employee. AND you threatened me, for reposting public articles about this. You are an unethical person who can not accept responsibility for actual crimes to which you pled guilty. Apologies don’t change the facts.

[Dogtamer]

@papy

Logged into my reddit account, had THREE replies from Ed, all along these same lines, to posts where I linked the Ecommerce Bytes post about his guilty plea.

His reply:

for the notes in 2018. For being a casual user of the notes. This is like .00001% of what the accusations were and even that was missing extreme context.

My reply:

Ed, are you seriously out here trying to justify yourself?! You are GUILTY. You did these things INTENTIONALLY, knowing they were not only prohibited but also wrong. Your actions put your clients and their competitors at greater risk. You colluded with other criminals. You lied about it, trying to make up some story about hacking and/or being framed. And you tried to threaten and intimidate an Amazon employee. AND you threatened me, for reposting public articles about this. You are an unethical person who can not accept responsibility for actual crimes to which you pled guilty. Apologies don’t change the facts.

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There exists no substitute for honesty. There exists no dearth of its lack.

[papy]

Oh lawdy, convicted felon Ed Rosenberg must be antsy on house arrest:

https://www.reddit.com/r/FulfillmentByAmazon/comments/prvatg/why_do_people_still_trust_and_look_up_to_ed/jwb70di

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On the sentencing submission, the govt said, “Rosenberg operates a legitimate consulting business that has served many seller clients through legal means, with the conduct charged in this case constituting a significant aberration from those legal business activities.”

My entire crime was occasionally using the notes, which I apologized for. This has been done millions of times in white hat Amazon, especially in 2018. This is not a legal defense and is still wrong, so I apologize and do not disavow the apology.

I denied the original jist of the indictment being part of a conspiracy hurting Amazon and sellers, which is silly, considering zero people have corroborated this, and it goes against the ASGTG brand. Still, I pleaded to using the notes unrelated to the others, mainly in 2018, which was quite acceptable in legal white hat circles. Any single seller who once used the notes to check their account health is part of the same conspiracy as me.

I was hacked and blackmailed, which is why many of the things I did made no sense (like cash in UBER). I was being threatened with mass email attacks against me and the Amazon execs I was doing the escalations with (ethically). I was trying to avoid that, so I played along with them so they have something to lose should they mass-email me. I was indeed mass-emailed anyways on Sept 24, 2019

I did not threaten an Amazon employee. That was a major misunderstanding which is why it never came up again. I never threatened anyone in my life.

There was a false narrative. I communicated with Amazon executives to escalate one-off suspensions for many years, and many assumed incorrectly that this was bribery. They were wrong, or all those accounts would be suspended.

I was framed to make it look like I paid a senior Amazon executive on one account, which is what this indictment was about. They were trying to catch these senior people. If you check the indictment, my total involvement in the first 80% was me emailing someone in Seattle, and then money was thrown into my bank account. It appeared like I had someone on the inside when it was all ethical.

[papy]

Wait, wait! There’s more…

He’s pasting the same reply everywhere, obviously trying to hack the SEO. Pathetic. He AGREED to the sentencing documents, with all allegations in it! LOL “framed,” as if he was that important to anyone.

What a victim complex.

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*There was context that flips all of that which is why zero people corroborated anything. You need to be nuts to think I was involved in that stuff even once when I worked on 12K plus and goes directly against the ASGTG brand *

Read the client-1 account. All it said was I emailed someone in Seattle (not a crime) and someone else said I paid someone after they threw money into my account. How is that not a frame job and why wouldn’t they go after that top Amazon exec if that was true?

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He won’t stop, yikes.

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all of this flips except for what I pleaded and apologized for which was only the notes. The client-1 account, was me emailing someone in Seattle and then money was thrown into my account and they said I “paid someone”.

if I did, why didn’t anyone hear about it? I was framed

[Tried_Tested]

Sometimes I wonder if the person really knows what they’re doing or if they really believe their own BS?

[papy]

@Tried_Tested

if the person really knows what they’re doing or if they really believe their own BS?

I think the story would’ve stayed consistent, if he really believed it.

But it’s continual evolution, trying to see what sticks? Full on intentional.

[Dogtamer]

@Tried_Tested

…if the person really knows what they’re doing or if they really believe their own BS?

Self-aggrandizement via the self-actualization of one’s own ego is a powerfully-pernicious force in These Modern Times.

To be fair, that’s always been an element present throughout Recorded Human History, and even back into the shrouded mists of Time - but I would submit that the problem has become much-more prevalent since the latter-½ of the 19th Century.

[papy]

Nah, he’s just trying to flood the space with seedlings of “reasonable doubt” for future victims clients.

HE doesn’t have to believe it, but he sure needs THEM to.

[Tried_Tested]

My girl says I’m full hard rtard when it comes to ego but still don’t see myself pulling a rosenberg.

Alas the world is an interesting place along with its people.

[Lost_My_Marbles]

@papy

Nah, he’s just trying to flood the space with seedlings of “reasonable doubt” for future victims

Agree …

@Dogtamer

but I would submit that the problem has become much-more prevalent since the latter-½ of the 19th Century.

Double agree … [mod edit]

[packetfire]

@papy

AND you threatened me

I’ve seen the guy with my own eyes. You could take him. A Girl Scout could take him. He’d probably run away at the first punch, if it did not send him to the pavement.

[oneida_books]

Oh geez!!

Amazon

[HobbesIsMyTiger]

Depends what is in the email, doesn’t it…

[VTR]

Someone needs to remind ed the sentencing statement…

“At the sentencing hearing, U.S. District Judge Richard A. Jones noted that Rosenberg “participated in the scheme for a period of three years. You stopped because you got caught by law enforcement.””

“Mr. Rosenberg participated in a scheme to bribe Amazon employees for confidential information and improper benefits – and he didn’t just funnel bribes through his co-conspirators to workers in India – he paid a Seattle Amazon employee more than $18,000 for confidential information,” said Acting U.S. Attorney Gorman. “After first attacking the federal indictment brought in this case, Mr. Rosenberg has now admitted his crimes and has publicized his regret about his criminal conduct as a warning to others who scheme to illegally manipulate the marketplace.”

Brooklyn, NY, consultant for Amazon sellers sentenced to home detention and...

[HobbesIsMyTiger]

@VTR

and has publicized his regret about his criminal conduct as a warning to others who scheme to illegally manipulate the marketplace.”

Except that he is claiming he was blackmailed into it, and framed for the whole thing, yada yada…

He is banking on nobody reading court documents and just taking his word for it. And some will.

[Lost_My_Marbles]

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[Pepper_Thine_Angus]

End of the day, he said the word “guilty” in court. And it’s on his record as such.

Now he is backpeddeling.

All I can say is it must be mighty nice to have $100k just sitting around to sent to the govt. Plus all the $ for the legal fees. Shows his overall income from his, “business” doesn’t it.

Makes ya think!

[Dogtamer]

@HobbesIsMyTiger

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He is banking on nobody reading court documents and just taking his word for it. And some will.

Yes, and judging from what I’ve seen posted in other venues, some apparently see the conviction as a badge of honor: “He took it on the chin for us little guys.”

Sigh.

[HobbesIsMyTiger]

I think the problem there is that he did help people legitimately, and also committed crimes. Some people are not able to see that if he had stuck to helping sellers legitimately he would a) not have committed any crimes and b) still have been able to help people. He could have helped the little guys and still committed no crimes. The crimes are not an integral part of a legitimate consulting business..