Former President Barack Obama's attorney general, Loretta Lynch, will lead an audit into racial equity and diversity at Amazon, according to the company’s annual meeting agenda filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
"We serve diverse customers, operate in diverse communities, and rely on a diverse workforce. Diversity, equity, and inclusion are cornerstones of our continued success and critical components of our culture," Amazon's annual meeting agenda said. "As part of our existing commitment to human and civil rights, racial equity, diversity and inclusion, and nondiscrimination, we are conducting a racial equity audit.
"The focus of the audit will be to evaluate any disparate racial impacts on our nearly one million U.S. hourly employees resulting from our policies, programs, and practices."
The company said that the audit, which will be released to the public once it is completed, will be conducted by the Paul Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP law firm, and led by Lynch.
"We know that diversity, equity, and inclusion matter and recognize that the advancement of diverse employees begins with proactive recruitment, retention, and development," the company said in the filing. "We seek individuals from all backgrounds to join our teams, and we encourage people to bring their authentic, original, and best selves to work."
According to her biography on the Department of Justice website, Lynch, 62, joined the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York in 1990, and was appointed to lead the office by former President Bill Clinton in 1999.
She left in 2002 to join a firm in private practice and went back to lead the office again in 2010 under former President Barack Obama, who appointed her as attorney general in 2014, serving in that capacity until 2017.
Lynch’s term as attorney general was not without controversy.
During the 2016 presidential campaign, Lynch met with former President Bill Clinton in a private airplane while parked on a Phoenix airport tarmac.
The incident took place while Clinton’s wife and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton was being investigated by the DOJ and FBI for misusing her official government email account while serving as secretary of state.
Lynch insisted that the two never discussed the ongoing investigation.
"I think she’s telling the truth about that," former FBI Director James Comey said of Lynch in a 2018 ABC News report. "But again, the confidence of people that the system is working in a fair way, that Lady Justice has kept her blindfold on, matters."
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