Loretta Lynch to lead racial equity audit at Amazon

Former Attorney General Loretta Lynch will lead Amazon’s racial equity audit of its close to 1 million hourly employees, according to a securities filing made by the retail giant.

Lynch — now a partner at the law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP — and other attorneys at the firm will conduct a racial equity audit of the retail giant, which will focus on evaluating “any disparate racial impacts on our nearly one million U.S. hourly employees resulting from our policies, programs, and practices,” according to the filing.

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