WASHINGTON—The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Wednesday rejected a bid by Amazon.com Inc. to quash demands that both Chief Executive Andy Jassy and Executive Chairman Jeff Bezos testify at investigative hearings.
Last month, Amazon questioned what it called the agency’s “burdensome” requests in its investigation of the sign-up and cancellation processes for its Prime program.
The retailer said the FTC was seeking to “harass” both Jassy and former CEO Bezos by demanding they testify at an investigative hearing “on an open-ended list of topics”, and asked that their testimony be quashed or at least delayed until after all other company officials had given testimony….