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Trump's Vaccine Chief Picks His Own Former Employer--Where He Still Holds Millions Worth of Stock--for
Published onFriday, July 31, 2020
by Common Dreams
Trump's Vaccine Chief Picks His Own Former EmployerWhere He Still Holds Millions Worth of Stockfor $2.1 Billion Deal
"You can't have a contractor supervising government officials."
by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
The White House on Friday awarded a record-breaking $2.1 billion contract for development of a Covid-19 vaccine, raising questions about a former pharmaceutical executive's involvement in the administration's decision.
The deal is for 100 million doses of a vaccine manufactured by Sanofi, a French drug maker, and its British partner GlaxoSmithKline (GSK).
As Fortune reported:
The deal follows billions of dollars of U.S. commitments to other experimental vaccinesall still needing to show their effectiveness in testingand may stoke concerns that other countries will be left behind. Vaccines are seen as the key to leading the world out of the pandemic that has killed about 675,000 people in a matter of months.
Dr. Moncef Slaoui, a former GSK executive, is head of the White House's Operation Warp Speed, the administration's program to develop and disburse an effective coronavirus vaccine. Slaoui's connection to his former company has been the focus of concern from advocacy groups and politicians skeptical of his claims of neutrality.
According to the New York Times:
Dr. Slaoui is not a federal employee, instead working under a $1 contract that exempts him from federal rules that would require him to list his outside positions, stock holdings and other potential conflicts. Dr. Slaoui said in an interview in May that he was determined to avoid any conflicts of interest, but that his GSK stock represented his retirement from 29 years at the company, and that he had told federal officials he would not take the job if he had to sell it.
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https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/07/31/trumps-vaccine-chief-picks-his-own-former-employer-where-he-still-holds-millions
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Trump's Vaccine Chief Picks His Own Former Employer--Where He Still Holds Millions Worth of Stock--for (Original Post)
Judi Lynn
Jul 2020
OP
C_U_L8R
(45,040 posts)1. Classic corruption
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)2. I cannot wait for Joe Biden's attorney general to take a look at the shit this administration has
pulled.
Some people seriously need to go to F***ING JAIL come 2021.
soothsayer
(38,601 posts)3. Vaccine guy is a real slime ball