Posted on 01/02/2022 7:40:02 AM PST by JonPreston
Pfizer has hired the former policy director for Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Hazen Marshall, as a lobbyist to support the Big Pharma firm’s efforts to shut down amendments to the False Claims Amendments Act of 2021. The lobbying contract covers opposition to whistleblower protections and affirming Pfizer’s patents on the COVID-19 vaccine, The National Pulse can reveal.
Lobbyist filings reveal Pfizer recently retained the D.C.-based Marshall & Popp to fight amendments to a law that currently does little to protect the public against fraud by firms like Pfizer. The lobbying firm, which raked in over $3,000,000 in 2021, was founded by former Mitch McConnell staffer Hazen Marshall and former Chief of Staff to Republican Senate Whip John Cornyn, Monica Popp.
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Is that more sway than his wife’s ties to China biz interests?
This is a close 2nd to Mrs McConnell’s anti-American activities.
Bodyguard survivor of Princess Diana's crash is now security boss at Covid vaccine firm
Witness how the raw exercise of power and influence generates money and how the people are made to suffer. No doubt McConnell joined Pelosi in buying Pfizer stock options. Sorry but comprehensive purges are necessary to save the American republic.
sick people, physically and mentally in charge, we need a purge desperately. the disease is wide spread
Every legislator should not vote if they are invested in pharmaceutical companies.
It is rather childish and naive for anybody to be surprised at this. Business as usual. “Government is the great fiction by which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.” Fredrik Bastiat 1801-1850
George Washington got to change the location of Wash DC in exchange for supporting Bank of the U.S. Made his property more valuable. Government is cronyism. The pols take as much as they can and spend the rest to buy votes to stay in power.
The US regulator [at the FDA] who oversaw the approval of the highly-addictive opioid OxyContin got a six-figure gig at the drug's manufacturer a year later...Curtis Wright, once a director at the FDA who oversaw evaluation for pain medication, got a position with a first-year compensation package of $400,000 at Purdue Pharma a year after he led the approval of OxyContin, according to the book "Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty" by Patrick Radden Keefe.
Been saying for a long, long time now that it's all about the money. Sure, they enjoy having power and control, but only because it provides them with status, and it helps them grow or protect their wealth. Every once in a while the world sees a true tyrant, but the vast majority of the time a politician is motivated solely by greed.
I always hate to quote a movie -- seems a little silly -- but sometimes there's a nugget of wisdom in pop culture. The slimy senator in Shooter nails it when he says: "There are no sides. There's no Sunnis and Shiites. There's no Democrats and Republicans. There's only HAVES and HAVE-NOTS."
Government of the Lobbyists by the Lobbyists for the Lobbyists.
So the Republicans are going to take control next November! So the Hell what! With scumbags like McConnell and McCarthy nothing will change except they will make millions in kickbacks from the lying drug companies
Lobbyist filings reveal Pfizer recently retained the D.C.-based Marshall & Popp to fight amendments to a law that currently does little to protect the public against fraud by firms like Pfizer. The lobbying firm, which raked in over $3,000,000 in 2021, was founded by former Mitch McConnell staffer Hazen Marshall and former Chief of Staff to Republican Senate Whip John Cornyn, Monica Popp.
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I’m sure they have the American Public’s best interest at heart.
Monica Popp... she any relation to Corn Pop?
Mortimer Sackler did will for a kid from Brooklyn, with zero knowledge of pharmaceuticals. Our Congress was nice enough to help him along.
And the dots get connected...
They mostly hate US, and most illiterate citizens haven't a clue what's going on.
No politician / office holder can be trusted with power for any longer than two terms. None. It doesn’t matter what party they belong to, or how ethical they may seem.
That's right and that's why they hate MAGA and Trump.
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