Updated at 9:07 a.m. ET
New York Attorney General Letitia James sued Amazon on Tuesday, claiming the massive e-commerce company’s “flagrant disregard for health and safety requirements” during the coronavirus pandemic put the lives of workers and the general public at risk.
She accused the company of shoddy contact tracing and poor cleaning — both designed to prevent the spread of the virus — at two New York facilities: a Staten Island fulfillment center and a Queens distribution center. A worker at the State Island plant warehouse died of COVID-19.
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