WARP SPEED” LEADER’S CONFLICT OF INTEREST

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

Health & Fitness, News, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 19 October 2020

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

With “Operation Warp Speed” being one of the biggest (over $1 billion) government funded vaccine projects in history, a major conflict of interest has come to light with Moncef Slaoui, the White House Scientific Head of Operations. Not only has he been the CEO to two of the largest drug companies in the world, both contenders in this race, but he also refuses to give up his $10 million in GlaxoSmithKline stock.

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0:00.0	Monseph Slowy, of course, is the new vaccine
0:03.9	czar that will be deciding whether or not the COVID-19
0:07.8	vaccine is ready to go how to implement it and get it across
0:11.4	the United States of America.
0:13.4	If you haven't been paying attention to this story,
0:15.6	there's a lot of discussions on this guy's
0:17.8	complex of interest.
0:19.0	He was the CEO of Moderna before he stepped down to take
0:23.6	this position.
0:24.6	He was also former CEO at GlaxoSmithCline.
0:28.5	Several articles have talked about this conflict of interest.
0:31.1	This is Trump's vaccines are refusing to give up stock and drug
0:34.4	company involved in his government role.
0:37.2	Federal law requires government officials to disclose
0:40.8	their personal finances and divest any holdings related
0:44.0	to their work.
0:45.0	But Slowy said he wouldn't take the job
0:47.0	under those conditions.
0:48.0	So the administration said it's treating him as a contractor.
0:51.5	Contractors aren't bound by the same ethics rules,
0:54.1	but also aren't supposed to wield as much authority
0:56.4	as full employees.
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