And the Hello and welcome to the corporate casket a bi-weekly series where bad businesses go to die.

We will discuss any and everything from bad charities, terrible CEOs, and businesses that

have a lot to hide.

I'm the aluminati and today we're going to be continuing

our little tiny chat about Amazon.

In part one we covered their history, past issues with the FTC

and LGBTQ community, their environmental impact or their lack of

attempting and counterfeit products. However we still have a lot of ground to cover

so without any further ado let's just jump right into today's

episode. We're going to start by talking about conflict of interest. You might remember how from part one I mentioned that Jeff

Bazzos owns the Washington Post. Well I'm sure a couple of you may have been

thinking hmm that doesn't sound great. A multi-billion dollar company

owning a newspaper that should have the right to criticize them?

It turns out you would be right, though for different reasons.

Back in 2013, Amazon actually signed a deal with the CIA.

It was worth up to $600 dollars over a period of 10 years.

It was obviously handled in secret and I cannot tell you the details because I don't know

what it entails. But the reason why this is such a great area is because the Washington Post now,

through Bézos, is somewhat effectively stuck being told to shut up about the

government or not talk about the CIA. Again, I really don't want to speculate

too much here. I feel like I'm entering dangerous waters, but Amazon just has way too many ties to the government in general.

I'm not saying there's no benefits to Amazon wanting to pair its tech with the CIA or whatever but in addition to its 600 million

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