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Originally Posted by 1andrew1
Crikey! More corruption being dug up in Trump's ever-churning administration and no it's not of the Russian flavour! This time it's Brenda Fitzgerald who's been caught out buying shares in a tobacco company, despite her job being to reduce smoking!
“It’s like a Mormon elder buying and selling stocks in whiskey,” said Richard Painter, who served as the chief White House ethics lawyer during the presidency of George W Bush. “It’s just fundamentally contrary to being a doctor. It shows no fundamental understanding of conflicts of interest.”
https://www.ft.com/content/84a907f0-...0-9c0ad2d7c5b5 |
Bit like when the pro tobacco Ken Clarke was made Health minister, smoking his cigars and swilling his pints !
He later went into the tobacco industry and the NHS has been sick ever since.