Lina Khan Is Coming for Amazon, Armed With an Antitrust Suit (1)

Lina Khan’s Federal Trade Commission has already filed three cases against Amazon.com Inc. Now she’s gearing up for the Big One.

In the coming weeks, the agency plans to file a far-reaching antitrust suit focused on Amazon’s core online marketplace, according to documents reviewed by Bloomberg and three people familiar with the case. The main allegation is expected to be that Amazon leverages its power to reward online merchants that use its logistics services and punish those who don’t.

FTC investigators and Khan’s office have been honing the complaint for several months, two of the people said, and ...