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Former AWS real estate managers, accused of taking millions in kickbacks, challenge Amazon’s motives amid FBI investigation

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Amazon Web Services had embarked on a data center building boom to handle soaring demand as attendees gathered for its 2019 re:Invent conference in Las Vegas. Eleven data center deals are now the subject of a suit by Amazon vs. two former AWS real estate managers and others. Amazon Web Services needed more capacity.

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Former Seattle entrepreneur and husband will get back most of funds seized by FBI in Amazon case

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government that will return most of their personal funds seized by the FBI as part of an investigation into Carleton Nelson’s activities in his past role as an Amazon real estate transaction manager. This is what happened here: The FBI seized our bank accounts based on criminal allegations made by Amazon’s lawyers.

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Riveter CEO and husband dispute FBI’s seizure of their bank accounts in AWS kickback investigation

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In a new court filing, lawyers for Seattle entrepreneur Amy Nelson and her husband contend that her salary and earnings are being unfairly held by the government as part of the FBI’s seizure last year of more than $892,000 from their bank accounts. — Amy Sterner Nelson (@Amy_K_Nelson) December 23, 2020.

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The GeekWire Summit returns next week: Agenda released featuring Andy Jassy, Ciara and others

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The former Hotwire and Expedia exec has not slowed down since leaving Zillow, bankrolling a handful of new ventures, launching a SPAC that acquired real estate service Opendoor, and even starting a new food-oriented social networking startup with his teenage daughter. on Tuesday, Oct.

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Moving in after Amazon backed out: Inside Rainier Square, Seattle’s new office and residential tower

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where it employs more than 500 in support of Amazon Web Services and its broadband satellite project, Project Kuiper. Seattle commercial real estate agency JLL says on its website that 526,000 square feet are still available. Bank of America is the largest of those subtenants at 116,000 square feet.

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Julie Larson-Green retires as Qualtrics CXO following IPO; Instacart names Asha Sharma COO; and more

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GameStop appointed former Zulily and Amazon Web Services engineering leader Matt Francis to the newly created role of CTO. He previously served as CTO for Seattle real estate startup Flyhomes and VP of product and engineering at Zulily. Francis was most recently an engineering leader at AWS.

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An inside look at Tableau: What’s the future of the ‘DataFam’ at Salesforce?

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Between cutbacks and departures, Tableau’s executive ranks have almost completely turned over since the Salesforce acquisition, starting with the exit of former Tableau CEO Adam Selipsky to become Amazon Web Services CEO, replacing Andy Jassy in that role after Jassy succeeded Amazon founder Jeff Bezos as CEO.