{"id":17317,"date":"2019-02-08T21:49:20","date_gmt":"2019-02-08T20:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidbosman.fr\/en\/?p=17317"},"modified":"2019-02-22T11:18:52","modified_gmt":"2019-02-22T10:18:52","slug":"jeff-bezos-answer-to-threats-and-blackmail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidbosman.fr\/en\/?p=17317","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Bezos answer to threats and blackmail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Bezos\u2019 answer to the threats he received: <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@jeffreypbezos\/no-thank-you-mr-pecker-146e3922310f\">No thank you, Mr. Pecker<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nTo lead my investigation, I retained Gavin de Becker. I\u2019ve known Mr. de Becker for twenty years, his expertise in this arena is excellent, and he\u2019s one of the smartest and most capable leaders I know. I asked him to prioritize protecting my time since I have other things I prefer to work on and <strong>to proceed with whatever budget he needed to pursue the facts in this matter.<\/strong> &nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Beside the fucked-up situation that Bezos reveals, I had to read this sentence two or three times just to wrap my head around this \u201c<em>whatever budget<\/em>\u201d, knowing Bezos\u2019s personal wealth is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/profile\/jeff-bezos\/#3139a0fe1b23\">estimated at $131B<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It made me realise that Bezos and I may live on the same planet and breathe the same polluted air, but we don\u2019t live in the same world where one must be a multi-billionaire to stand a chance against such threats and the crooks behind them. Something Bezos seems to be well aware:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nIf in my position I can\u2019t stand up to this kind of extortion, how many people can? (On that point, numerous people have contacted our investigation team about their similar experiences with AMI, and how they needed to capitulate because, for example, their livelihoods were at stake.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Bezos\u2019 answer to the threats he received: No thank you, Mr. Pecker. To lead my investigation, I retained Gavin de Becker. I\u2019ve known Mr. de Becker for twenty years, his expertise in this arena is excellent, and he\u2019s one of the smartest and most capable leaders I know. I asked him to prioritize protecting &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidbosman.fr\/en\/?p=17317\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Jeff Bezos answer to threats and blackmail&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-17317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbosman.fr\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbosman.fr\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbosman.fr\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbosman.fr\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbosman.fr\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17317"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbosman.fr\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17322,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbosman.fr\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17317\/revisions\/17322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbosman.fr\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbosman.fr\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbosman.fr\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}