Alvaro Bedoya, a former commissioner at the Federal Trade Commission who was fired recently by President Donald Trump, gave an alarming interview with The Guardian on Friday in which he warned of mass corruption undertaken by America's wealthiest elites.
In the interview, Bedoya argued that there should be a "blinking red alarm" going off in Americans' minds right now when it comes to how the country is being governed.
“This isn’t about progressive versus conservative,” he told The Guardian. “This is about the rule of law versus the rule of billionaires.”
Bedoya further drew a connection between his firing and Trump's relationship with Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos.
As Bedoya explains, he was involved in several cases at the FTC involving Amazon and he made a number of statements that were none-too-flattering about the company.
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“I think it’s remarkable that one of the last public statements I made before the president tried to fire me was denouncing the high injury rates and the working conditions at Amazon warehouse floors, such that the company literally has to position vending machines on its warehouse floors that dispense painkillers,” he said.
Bedoya also pointed to Amazon's recent deals such as the decision to fork over $40 million in exchange for the rights to exclusively stream a documentary about first lady Melania Trump has another reason to suspect corruption.
“When you see a company with a safety track record like Amazon’s, then you see the donations from Mr. Bezos and the deals that are being cut between the first family and Mr. Bezos’s company, and then you see that the person nominated to head up the Occupational Safety and Health Administration is none other than an Amazon safety executive... it would be foolish to not worry about the possibility of corruption and the possibility of corporate pardon," he said.