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In the midst of the scrutiny on the promise of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. To transfer their financial interest in their family’s vaccine demands, legal experts have criticized the measure, but says that the Kennedy approach is not significantly different from the actions taken by other public officials in the past.
During Kennedy Confirmation Audiences last week, The possible Secretary of Health and Human Services was tested for his financial participation in the demands of personal injuries related to vaccines, in particular his links to a lawsuit against the Merck pharmaceutical company and his vaccine against cervical cancer. . Although Kennedy did not initially commit to releasing his participation against Merck, he reversed the course in a written answer to the legislators’ questions after an audience, noting that he would modify his promise and “disassociate my interest in any Litigation through a task to my non -dependent adult son,. “
While some legal experts They have argued that the measure is not far enough away to override potential conflicts for Kennedy, others say that this approach resembles what several other public officials have been made in a similar situation. In the meantime, a legal expert suggested to Fox News Digital that Kennedy’s passage to his son “is more than enough to satisfy any ethical problem.”
An image of HHS secretary, candidate for RFK Jr. Juxtaposed with a bottle of pills made by medicine manufacturers. (Istock/Getty)
“This can fulfill the ordinary issues of conflict of interest,” said Jim Copland, director of Legal Policy at the Manhattan Institute. “I just don’t think the head of the Department of Health and Human Services It has some company involved in any way with Litigation against Merck. ”
Manhattan Institute’s companion, legal expert, Ilya Shapiro, said that it is not sure if Kennedy’s move will be enough to avoid any real conflict, but added that he acknowledged that “it is not unusual in the light d ‘Past examples. ”
Both Democrats and Republicans have used the family to protect themselves from ethical complaints related to their personal business business President Joe Biden Being a recent and remarkable example after a multiannual probe in his family business, which found that both his son and his brother were engaged in risky trade relations with foreign entities, such as China. Biden has repeatedly denied his participation in this business treatment.
The questions still revolve around former President Joe Biden and if his office was used to economically benefit his son Hunter and his brothers James and Frank. (Getty’s pictures)
Former Speaker of the Nancy Pelosi House In the same way he tried to defend his family’s business treatment after it was revealed that her husband made money by investing in companies that had business in front of his wife. In response to journalists’ questions regarding whether he agreed with efforts to ban federal federal spouses to negotiate in actions, Pelosi replied that “they should be able to participate in this.”
Other notable figures who have used their families to protect their personal businesses are the president Donald Trump, who handed over to his children the control of his Trump organization, and the missing senator Dianne Feinstein, whose investor husband, Richard Blum, managed the investments through his companies at Blum Capital Partners who often crossed themselves With his wife’s work while in Congress.
Then speaker of the Nancy Pelosi house and her husband, Paul Pelosi. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)
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“It is my opinion that RFK, the plan of Jr. Vaccine injuries For his son, it is more than enough to satisfy ethical concerns, “Fox News Digital Hans von von Spakovsky, a leading legal companion at the Heritage Foundation, told Fox. The vaccine manufacturers who severely limit the possible compensation for anyone who They claimed a vaccine were somewhat defective. “
Spakovsky said that the National Federal Government’s vaccine compensation program, which prohibits civil litigation against drug manufacturers, and instead runs the federal government to administer payments to the vaccine against the statement of the statement. Vaccine, is used to face the impact that Kennedy could have on vaccine -related injuries.
“RFK would have no authority (about this program),” he said. “The point is that all this is so disconnected from RFK, the potential position of the Jr. Cabinet
Activists attend a press conference on the Supreme Court’s ethics reform outside the chapter on May 2, 2023.
Copland, who agreed with Spakovsky that the vaccine compensation program decreases much of Kennedy’s advantage, said that RFK Jr. could still benefit from indirectly.
“I think this is a conflict of interest rather than saying: ‘Oh, you have a lot of interest in the company that can benefit -by chance, you know,’ ‘said Copland. “I mean, if you had a Secretary of the Department of Defense Who was the CEO of a significant military contractor, and then happens to his son, I think you would still have a concern because of the obvious conflict of interest, which is different than a kind of order. ” Oh, I am the owner of a company and, in passing, will benefit from the Government. “
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Fox News Legal Analyst Andy McCarthy was more critical of Kennedy’s decision to convey his financial interests to his son, noting that the “struggle to find a scheme to preserve his participation instead of. Doing what is clear abandoning emphasizes that this is a conflict of real interest. “
“Comparison with family assets transfers in other contexts is inappropriate and, in any case, loses the point,” said McCarthy. “Everything that is thought of by President Trump’s agreements on his family business, constituents knew about this business and chose it anyway, and the President is not in a position to recuse himself from executive decision-making. In conflicts of interest.
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McCarthy added that after years, “he complained justifiably that President Biden became rich corruptly by payments … made to his son and brother,” it is difficult for him to believe this Republicans You can put your eyes on financial participation, which would create a conflict of important interest for RFK Jr. As secretary of HHS, with the pretext he plans to transfer participation to his son. “
