Amid scrutiny about Robert F. Kennedy Junior by transferring his financial interest in vaccine lawsuits to his family, legal experts criticized this step, but they noticed that Kennedy's approach was not very different from the measures taken by other public officials in the past.
during Kennedy confirmation sessions last week, The Minister of Health and Potential Humanitarian Services has been investigated on his financial share in the personal injury claims related to vaccines, especially his relationships with a lawsuit against the Merck Medicines Company and its vaccine for cervical cancer. While Kennedy will initially commit to abandoning his share against Merck, he reflected the path in my book response to the questions of the legislators after a hearing, indicating that he will adjust his pledge and “will lead to stripping my interest in any such suit through a mission to my adult son Certified.
While some Legal experts They argued that this step is not going out enough to cancel the potential conflicts of Kennedy, others say this approach is similar to the approach taken by many other public employees who found themselves in a similar situation. Meanwhile, one of the legal experts on Fox News Digital suggested that a pass from Kennedy to his son “more than enough to meet any moral concerns.”
Photo of the Candidate of the Secretary HHS RFK JR. Javiga next to a bottle of birth control pills made by drug manufacturers. (Istock/Getty)
“This may be complied with issues of conflict of ordinary interests,” said Jim Kobland, Director of Legal Policy at the Manhattan Institute. “I just don't think it is head Ministry of Health and Human Services He has any action that participates in any way with litigation against Merck. ”
His colleague, legal expert at the Manhattan Institute, Elijah Shapiro, said that he was not sure whether Kennedy's move would be sufficient to avoid any real conflict, but he added that he realizes that he is not unusual in light of the previous examples.
Both Democrats and Republicans used the family to protect themselves from morals related to their personal commercial transactions, with the previous one President Joe Biden Being a recent and noticeable example after a multi -year achievement in his family work transactions that found that both his son and brother were participating in risky trade relations with foreign entities, such as China. Biden has repeatedly denied his involvement in these commercial transactions.
Questions are still about former President Joe Biden and whether his office has been accustomed to his son Hunter and his brothers James and Frank. (Getty Images)
former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Likewise, she sought to defend her family's commercial dealings after she revealed that her husband was making money in investing in companies that have business in front of his wife. In response to questions from reporters about whether they are consistent with the efforts made to ban the pairs of federal lawmakers from trading in stocks, Pelosi replied that “they should be able to participate in that.”
Other prominent characters who used their families include the main personality traditions Donald Trump, Who delivered control of his commercial empire Trump for his children, and the late Senator Diane Vincenin, whose investor wife, Richard Bloom, managed to invest through his company Bloom Capital Barterez, who often intersects with his wife while she was in Congress.
At the time, Nancy Pelosi and her husband Paul Pelosi. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)
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“This is my opinion that the RFK plan, the son to pass any financial share as possible Pollen “His son is more than sufficient to meet any moral concerns. This is especially true because of the restrictions imposed by federal law on any claims against the vaccine manufacturers that severely limit Possible compensation for anyone claiming that the vaccine is somewhat defective. “
SPakovsky assumed that the national governmental vaccine compensation program, which prohibits civil litigation against drug makers and instead directs the federal government to manage any vaccines injury payments, storing Kennedy's effect, which can have Kennedy on vaccine -related injuries.
“RFK will not have power at all (on this program),” he said. “The important point is that all of this is separate from the potential cabinet website for RFK, the son, if confirmed, that anyone says this is a” serious “ethical problem.”
Activists attend a press conference on reforming the ethics of the Supreme Court outside the Capitol on May 2, 2023.
Cobleland, who agreed with Spacovsky, said that the vaccine compensation program reduces a lot of Kennedy's feature, The RFK JR. He can still use indirectly.
“I think it is more important than conflicting interests than just saying,” Oh, you have a lot of stock interests in some companies that may benefit by the way. “I mean, if you have a file Secretary of the Ministry of Defense Who was the CEO of a major military contractor, and then transferred to his son, I think you still have anxiety about this because of the conflict of clear interests there, and he is different from a kind of ordinary.
RFK JR spent the weekend in speaking to the main Senator who could make or break confirmation
Fox News analyst Andy McCarthy was more critical to Kennedy's decision to pass his financial interests to his son, noting that “the fact that he is struggling to reach a plan to keep his share, instead of carrying out the right thing clear by giving up that he confirms that this is real conflict in interests “.
McCarthy said: “The comparison with the transfer of family assets in other contexts is not available, and in any case, this point misses.” “Whatever one thinks about President Trump's arrangements regarding his work in his family, the voters knew that work and elected him in any case-and the president is not in a situation that allows him to receive himself from making executive decisions on the basis of conflicting interests. He was elected by anyone.”
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McCarthy added that after years of complaint that President Biden had been enriched with corruption … Republicans You can turn a financial share, which would create a major conflict of the interests of RFK JR. As the HHS secretary, on the pretext that he plans to transfer the class to his son. “
