HHS Secretary RFK Jr. Confirmed with Ongoing Vaccine Litigation Referral Fees

| Importance: 9/10 | Status: confirmed

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. confirmed with ongoing financial interests in vaccine litigation, earning $856,559 in referral fees while controlling federal health policy. Despite resignation from consulting arrangements, he retains potential profit from Merck vaccine litigation, raising significant conflict of interest concerns flagged by Sen. Elizabeth Warren. Kennedy has dismissed the entire CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices and cut over 20,500 workers from HHS, approximately 18% of the department’s workforce.

Key Actors

robert-f-kennedy-jr childrens-health-defense HHS NIH Merck crispr-therapeutics dragonfly-therapeutics wisner-baum-law-firm senator-elizabeth-warren

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rfk-jr anti-vaccine hhs conflict-of-interest biotech-investments public-health scientific-denial regulatory-capture vaccine-policy ethics-violation

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