Posted on 03/14/2021 11:00:33 AM PDT by rktman
Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley is pressing Vanita Gupta, the nominee for the number three position at the Justice Department, over millions of dollars in stock holdings she has in a chemical company that makes a key ingredient that Mexican drug cartels use to make heroin.
Gupta holds between $11 million and $55 million in shares of Avantor, a Pennsylvania-based chemical company, according to financial disclosures she has filed with the Office of Government Ethics.
Gupta’s father, Raj Gupta, serves as chairman of the board of Avantor.
Gupta is the wealthiest political nominee that President Joe Biden has picked while in office, according to ABC News. Gupta, who led the Justice Department’s civil rights office during the Obama administration, disclosed between $42 million and $187 million in total assets on her latest financial disclosure.
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Acetic anhydride is a chemical used to manufacture all sorts of chemical products, not just heroin.
It would be as logical to go after any company that used H2O.
Logic us not your strong suit, is it?
Dihydrogenmonoxide us extremely deadly.
Where did you chemistry degree?
It’s used to synthesize acetaminophen, AKA Tylenol.
“The mechanism for synthesizing Acetaminophen using 4-aminophenol and acetic anhydride.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yqd9Px_i6qw
I’m more interested in if this Pennsylvania company may have funded Pennsylvania election law changes, etc.
Democrats do everything pay-to-play style.
What! my god! it's full of Oxidane! I'm steaming in outrage!
If you’ve got $150 million why on earth would you want to be #3 in the Justice Department? And why on earth would Americans want that person to be #3 in the Justice Department?
She6 a marxist. Flat out marxist.
But pubnies just want to play nice nice. They should not approve any of them. Remember what dems did to Trump!!!!!
Flimsey Grahamnesty will rubber stamp them all.
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