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Amy Nelson

Amy Nelson

Film writer

May 5, 2026

9:33
Mm.
9:34
And I heard a knock at the door, and I walked downstairs, and we had a glass door, and there were two people standing there in, like, khakis and navy blue jackets.
9:42
[laughs] And, but I couldn't see the backs, so I didn't know what the jacket said, and I kind of shrugged at them like, "What?" Like, "Why are you here?" And in my mind, I was like, "Was there a public health crisis overnight because of the pandemic?" Like, "What's happened?" And they flashed their FBI badges.
9:55
And so I opened the door, and I was like, "How can I help you?" And they said, "We'd like to speak to your husband." So I yelled for him, and he came down, and I said to him, like, "You really can't speak to these people without a lawyer," which is something, if anybody takes anything away from this show at all, like, that is the thing to take away.
10:11
Never speak to any law enforcement without a lawyer.
10:14
Um, and they handed us two letters, one telling my husband that he was the target of a federal criminal investigation being run out of Virginia, so across the country, and that they intended to seize all of our money.
12:59
I see.
12:59
So it wasn't like, there was no, like, "You just need to be a witness." It was like, "You need to plead guilty, and if you don't plead guilty, we're gonna take you to trial and put you in prison for a very long time." And my husband, you know, was very much like, "I have...
22:09
Yeah, so he built data centers
22:11
for Amazon and worked with developers who were building data centers that Amazon would lease.
22:16
And my husband started working at Amazon in 2012, and he signed Amazon's original employment contract.
22:21
It is a wild document.
22:22
I will be the first to admit that.
22:23
It's 10 pages long.
22:25
And I think it's very Jeff Bezos, the way he used to be.

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51:16
But did you have a larger conversation with him about, hey, do you realize that what you did was

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