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Not sure if this was posted up thread but did you see the former head of the CDC was arrested today? Check out the organization he is affiliated with below.

https://nypost.com/2018/08/24/former-head-of-cdc-arrested-for-groping-woman/

“The former director of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention — and one-time NYC Health Commissioner — was arrested Friday for groping a woman inside his Brooklyn Heights apartment, police sources said.

Thomas Frieden, who was the head of the CDC from 2009 to 2017, turned himself into the NYPD’s Special Victims Division in Brooklyn for allegedly grabbing a 55-year-old woman’s backside in October 2017, police said.

The victim and Frieden have known each other for more than 20 years, sources told The Post, though they were not believed to have had an intimate relationship.

The woman and another couple had gotten together at Frieden’s apartment at 180 Montague Street, sources said. He allegedly grabbed her behind as they were getting ready to leave for the night.

Frieden was charged with forcible touching, sexual abuse and harassment.

He looked glum and said nothing to reporters as he was walked — cuffed behind his back — from SVD and into a squad car.

As the head of the city’s health commission from 2002 to 2009, Frieden was best known for banning smoking in bars and restaurants as part of an anti-cigarette campaign that cut the amount of smokers in the Big Apple. He also banned trans fats in food, pushed for calorie information on menus and supported the distribution of free condoms.

Frieden went to Oberlin College in Ohio where he met his wife, Barbara Chang. It’s unclear whether the two are still married.

He was appointed to the top post overseeing the nation’s leading health protection agency by then-President Barack Obama, who called him “an expert in preparedness and response to health emergencies.”

With the CDC, he helped stem the Ebola epidemic and stepped down after President Trump was elected.

Frieden now heads Resolve to Save Lives — a $225 million health initiative funded by the charities of former Mayor Mike Bloomberg, Bill and Melinda Gates and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan.

Neither Chang nor a rep for Resolve to Save Lives immediately returned messages.”