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Maraya1969

(23,099 posts)
Wed Jan 29, 2025, 12:22 PM 21 hrs ago

RFK has made money from vaccine lawsuit referrals

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/rfk-jr-hes-anti-vaccine-profit-off-vaccine/story?id=118137375

"Senator Warren just got done trying to get him to commit to not suing vaccine manufacturers. He made 2 million suing Merk. She said he made 2 million in referral fees

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"In 2020, as a pandemic raged across the globe, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took to social media to appeal to his hundreds of thousands of followers on Facebook.-------------------------
Public health researchers and doctors said there was no evidence that the vaccine, Gardasil, was linked to the health problems he cited, noting 160 favorable studies on safety. A federal court created to compensate people injured by vaccines also had already rejected a similar claim, citing "insufficient proof" that the vaccine was behind the plaintiff's health issues."

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"According to financial disclosure documents released last week, Kennedy's primary source of income in the past year were large sums of referral fees from multiple law firms, including Baum's office, whose civil lawsuit against Merck's Gardasil vaccine went to trial in Los Angeles County Superior Court last week."
Kennedy's leading role in building a case against Merck is now raising questions about how he might wield his power as the nation's next health secretary – a job intended as an impartial overseer in public health – while in line for potential payouts from a major pharmaceutical company.

"This disclosure shows that RFK Jr. made millions off of peddling dangerous anti-vaccine conspiracies," said Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, who is a Democratic member of the Senate Finance Committee that will oversee Kennedy's nomination."
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RFK has made money from vaccine lawsuit referrals (Original Post) Maraya1969 21 hrs ago OP
Nice summary, you got the details I couldn't remember. Ranting Randy 21 hrs ago #1
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