Hahaha right?

I don’t know for sure but I imagine they do to their shareholders but a headline of “Amazon doubles workforce in 2 years and then corrects by 2%” doesn’t sound like it’s gonna get clicks

Exactly. Always more to the story than the headline. A couple of years ago they were around 900k employees and are now around 1.6MILLION employees. Yes with this additional 9,000 they are around 35,000 layoffs…. That’s not a lot.

If any other company was like, “hey everyone over the past 2-3 years we doubled our staff and over-hired a bit… and are correcting this year. Unfortunately we are going to lay off 2% of the staff (again we doubled our staff and have to reduce by 2% now).” it likely wouldn’t make headlines.

They probably will. They also have to protect their sources so don’t want to reveal anything in the indictments that would tip their hat to how much info they actually have.

They issue arrest warrants based on the quickest (in this case) and easiest offenses to prove. They could have arraigned him on a single count if they wanted to it doesn’t really matter. They are going to be slam dunk cases.

They can always add more charges if he doesn’t cooperate or plead quickly. I am actually really against plead deals in the US. But this is not an uncommon tactic. Basically hook your fish quickly and keep them in the hook with a seam dunk and then if the fish makes you “really work for it” while reeling him in, then you slap 5-10 additional charges on them. If he comes quietly and pleads to the original 2 plus a few smaller ones the prosecutor will likely agree to it.

TDLR: no they didn’t graduate during lockdown and clearly you have never been a prosecutor before.