
Amy Nelson
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May 5, 2026
Jeff Bezos, Amazon & The Case That Took Everything | Amy Nelson
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Amy NelsonGUEST
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.
Amy NelsonGUEST
[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.
Amy NelsonGUEST
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.
Amy NelsonGUEST
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.
Amy NelsonGUEST
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...
The Woman Who Took On Amazon
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Amy NelsonGUEST
for Amazon and worked with developers who were building data centers that Amazon would lease.
Amy NelsonGUEST
And my husband started working at Amazon in 2012, and he signed Amazon's original employment contract.
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But did you have a larger conversation with him about, hey, do you realize that what you did was