The trial will start on the 30th! Amazon's famous consultant finally pleaded guilty to bribery

On Monday, a well-known Amazon seller consultant finally admitted to the crime of bribery. In the past few years, he had publicly denied that he had bribed Amazon's internal employees.

By colluding with Amazon's internal staff, the consultant obtained a lot of inside information, which helped his clients increase sales and even forcibly restored the seller's blocked account through "unconventional" means.

In a LinkedIn post, the consultant said he would plead guilty in federal court. It is understood that the accusation first began in 2020. The indictment accused six people, including the consultant, of providing unfair competitive advantages to Amazon sellers through bribery and other means.

Four of them have pleaded guilty, including a former Amazon employee who was sentenced to 10 months in prison last year .

It is understood that the Amazon consultant is named Rosenberg, who lives in Brooklyn and is a well-known figure in the Amazon seller circle. He has a consulting company, whose main business is to guide sellers in operating stores and can help sellers solve account problems.

Rosenberg also has a seller group on Facebook with more than 68,000 sellers, and he hosts an annual seller conference for some of the biggest names in Amazon.

According to court records, Rosenberg will appear in the U.S. District Court in Seattle on March 30. According to him: "For a period of time, I began to try to understand the reasons why sellers' accounts were blocked through 'internal channels' in order to help them restore their accounts if possible. In some cases, I bribed Amazon employees directly or indirectly."

However, just last month, Rosenberg denied the prosecutor's allegations, calling the case a "conspiracy" and claiming that he was framed. But for some reason, he suddenly "found his conscience" and said he was "sorry" for participating in the bribery scheme.

The U.S. Department of Justice stated that Rosenberg and others had begun to engage in bribery since at least 2017, with the amount of bribery reaching as much as $100,000, and the illegal profits obtained from the bribery exceeded one million U.S. dollars.

Previously released court documents show that Rosenberg allegedly made a "veiled threat" to an employee at Amazon's Seattle headquarters. The documents also detailed the defendant's elaborate operation to evade detection by authorities, including stuffing cash that might have been bribes into a camel-shaped footstool.

In response, an Amazon spokesperson said that Amazon has set up a system to detect suspicious behavior and arranged a special working group to investigate related incidents.

"Amazon is pleased to cooperate with the federal government as we pursue this case thoroughly. There is no place for fraud on the Amazon platform."

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