Ex-prosecutor: Bezos' allegations of extortion are a close call

On Thursday, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos posted a blog post on Medium claiming that American Media Inc., publisher of the National Enquirer, committed "extortion and blackmail." Bezos alleged that the publisher threatened to release embarrassing pictures of him unless he ended his investigation of leaks to AMI. If true, this raises a difficult but important legal question: Do AMI's actions constitute criminal extortion?

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