> The WEEK
> ending 11 March 2001
>
> The Internot
>
> Amazon founder and chief executive Jeff Bezos is being investigated by
> the New York Securities and Exchange Commission for allegedly selling
> off 800 000 shares in his own company on the eve of the publication of a
> critical report by Lehman brothers into the internet book store
reply from a friend to whom I sent your comment:
The following Wall Street Journal article
http://public.wsj.com/sn/y/SB984169185209717909.html
suggests the SEC would have a hard time making a case against Bezos
None of which should be read as my endorsing Amazon as a business model, and certainly not as an investment. While I'm at it, fetch me more pikes for the heads of Redhat and VA Linux and Loudcloud and Healtheon....