Amazon claims Carl Nelson participated in an elaborate kickback scheme, accusing him and others of lining their pockets when negotiating data center deals. Amazon tipped off federal prosecutors, who have since secured guilty pleas from two people involved in the scheme.
While Carl Nelson has not been publicly charged with a crime, he and others have been fighting a sprawling federal lawsuit brought by Amazon in 2020. On Thursday, a federal judge threw out most of Amazon’s claims against him, noting that some of Amazon’s arguments had “fundamental” flaws.
Allow me to translate: "Federal pieces of cr@p threatened two people with 100 years in jail unless they pled guilty to these BS charges. Being smart, they did."