Bill de Blasio calls Amazon’s New York pullout ‘an abuse of corporate power’

Published February 17, 2019 10:56pm ET



New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said Sunday that Amazon’s decision to pull out of a planned 25,000-employee campus in Queens was “an abuse of corporate power.”

The online retail and cloud-computing giant on Thursday withdrew plans to open the New York headquarters, citing “a number of state and local politicians have made it clear that they oppose our presence.”

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