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Nevilledog

(51,197 posts)
Wed Oct 21, 2020, 09:35 PM Oct 2020

Trump's Vaccine Czar Refuses to Give Up Stock in Drug Company Involved in His Government Role



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ProPublica
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The Trump administration labeled its vaccine czar a “contractor” to sidestep rules against personally profiting from government positions. The man holding this position owns $10 million in stock of a company working with his team to develop a vaccine.

Trump’s Vaccine Czar Refuses to Give Up Stock in Drug Company Involved in His Government Role
The administration calls Moncef Slaoui, who leads its vaccine race, a “contractor” to sidestep rules against personally profiting from government positions. Slaoui owns $10 million in stock of a…
propublica.org
6:12 PM · Oct 21, 2020
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Trump's Vaccine Czar Refuses to Give Up Stock in Drug Company Involved in His Government Role (Original Post) Nevilledog Oct 2020 OP
Blood in the streets if a Democrat Eliot Rosewater Oct 2020 #1
Can't wait for some Repug to make any inference, StClone Oct 2020 #4
he used to run R&D in GSK - where I worked for nearly 25 years. couldn't stand him then... NRaleighLiberal Oct 2020 #2
That's the crook who pushed through dangerous drugs in the past soothsayer Oct 2020 #3

StClone

(11,686 posts)
4. Can't wait for some Repug to make any inference,
Wed Oct 21, 2020, 10:09 PM
Oct 2020

or outright crazy statement, that what President Biden's Administration is doing is wrong! So many times, for years to come, we can find a counter example to throw back with force in their sack-o-shit faces of real illegality.

NRaleighLiberal

(60,019 posts)
2. he used to run R&D in GSK - where I worked for nearly 25 years. couldn't stand him then...
Wed Oct 21, 2020, 09:39 PM
Oct 2020

can't stand him now.

soothsayer

(38,601 posts)
3. That's the crook who pushed through dangerous drugs in the past
Wed Oct 21, 2020, 09:40 PM
Oct 2020

Don’t take any vaccines from this crowd.

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