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Tonight inquiring minds may be in legal trouble. CNN has learned federal prosecutors in New York are reviewing claims the National Inquirer attempted to extort and blackmail Jeff Bezos, the billionaire founder and CEO of Amazon and owner of the Washington Post. Overnight Bezos accused the Inquirer, its parent company, American Media and its CEO David *** of trying to blackmail him saying the tabloid would not publish and embarrassing pictures of Bezos and this woman Lauren Sanchez with whom Bezos had an affair, but only if Bezos would agree to stop investigating the tabloid. This story is about people at the pinnacle of very different professions, the richest man in the world, the White House, the most powerful man in the world and the most vulgar and awful and powerful in its way tabloid in the world. The sordid saga began back in January when the National Enquirer published text messages between Bezos and Sanchez. Bezos did not deny having an affair. And shortly before the story broke announced he was divorcing his wife. At the same time, Bezos hired investigators to find out how the Inquirer got the texts. Representatives of Bezos told news organizations, he thought the leak of the text was politically motivated, revealing that Bezos says led to these letters and emails from American media's lawyers threatening to release the compromising photos if Bezos didn't publicly say that Ami's coverage of the Bezos scandal wasn't politically motivated and call off his investigators instead, Bezos went public saying he'd rather expose the tabloids tactics. But why, what we've learned if anything about the National Enquirer and David *** over the last year is that they will attack the enemies of their friends and that they might expect something in return from that in *** lengthy blog post. Bezos suggests just that pointing to the Ami Chief David Pecker's relationship with President Trump as well as stories about *** cultivating ties with Saudi Arabia. We know that there's *** history of David *** and Ami looking for opportunities with Saudi Arabia, looking for investment from Saudi Arabia, looking for acquisitions in Saudi Arabia, *** way into that market. The Saudis have been the focus of the post's unrelenting coverage of the murder of its columnist, Jamal Kasogi *** hit the CIA believes was ordered by the Saudi crown prince, which the Saudis deny Bezos appeared to question why Ami published *** 97 page glossy magazine last year, praising Saudi Arabia. What *** said at the time, what American media said at the time was, hey, people are fascinated by Royals and this is Saudi royalty and it's an exciting time in Saudi Arabia. Bezos also seems to suggest *** could have gone after him to please President Trump. The president has long complained the post's coverage is unfair. Trump's ties with David *** go back to the 1990 s and *** helped Trump cover up an alleged affair with *** former playboy model, David ***, not only has *** long friendship with Donald Trump, he has put his money where his mouth is, he paid off Karen mcdougal to maintain her silence. But since then, David *** was granted immunity by prosecutors in New York and agreed to provide them information on those hush money deals. Tonight. CNN has learned that deal could be in jeopardy if prosecutors find *** or Ami broke the law in their dealings with Bezos, they could lose their immunity in the hush money cases.