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If you need help in your fight against a sinister conspiracy intent on silencing people, call Constance Wu. The actor isn’t one to shy away from calling out bullshit when it’s practiced by large entertainment conglomerates and awards shows, so naturally, she’d be a good person to contact if you need to do that for Amazon. Not
to Amazon, mind you at least, not in this particular instance. Maybe that will come later.
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Variety, Wu has signed on to costar in
The Terminal List, the upcoming Amazon thriller series starring Chris Pratt. She joins Taylor Kitsch, who similarly just stepped up to add his name to the project though hopefully not to the titular list, which sounds like kind of a dangerous thing about a week ago. Pratt headlines as a Navy SEAL, James Reece, whose entire platoon is killed, and once he arrives back home, begins to uncover evidence of a conspiracy behind the incident, one that still threatens him. Wu is
New York Attorney General Sues Amazon Over Flagrant Disregard For Covid Safety
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Early on in the pandemic New York Attorney General Letitia James promised an investigation into Amazon’s safety practices and, by god, she delivered.
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Last night, James filed an expansive lawsuit against Amazon with the New York State Supreme Court for a myriad of alleged failures to adequately protect workers from covid-19 and retaliation against whistleblowers. Amazon, anticipating the allegations, fired off a preemptive lawsuit last week asking a New York federal court to toss out James’s forthcoming suit. Barring the sliver of a chance that Amazon gets a swift victory in its opening salvo, prepare for a bitter war.
Future Group has alleged that Amazon had asked for USD 40 million (around Rs 290.41 crore) in compensation for the deal with Reliance Industries, a charge that the e-commerce major termed as false and misleading claims . According to documents submitted to the emergency arbitrator of SIAC by the Kishore Biyani-led firm, Amazon had asked for USD 40 million in compensation from Future Group for the deal with Reliance Industries, and that the US-based company was well aware of the Rs 24,713 crore Future-RIL deal. However, an Amazon spokesperson said the company denies the false and misleading claims being made by the Future Group on a purported request for compensation to forego the right of first refusal .