Washington D.C. – The festering swamp of corruption and self-dealing surrounding the Trump White House just got even deeper with two new reports on potential conflicts of interest for Trump’s health secretary, RFK Jr.
The Financial Times reports today that RFK Jr.’s son William “Finn” Kennedy is “launching a fund to invest in healthcare companies, touting his ties to his father’s ‘Make America healthy Again’ movement (MAHA) and backing groups that could benefit from it.” “Finn” is “seeking to raise $100mn for the fund, Victura Ventures, targeting early-stage growth companies involved in healthcare AI, consumer health, and other health technologies”.
Meanwhile, the NYT reports “Calley Means, a top aide to [RFK Jr.], was advising on changes to the American health system while running a rapidly growing wellness company poised to benefit from Trump administration health policies. Records … show that Mr. Means held between $25 million and $50 million in stock in the company, Truemed, through November, as he continued to serve as its president.”
These potential conflicts involving RFK Jr.’s son and close associate come on top of the health secretary’s other known conflicts, including potential HHS changes to the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP) that could enrich Kennedy’s dearest allies, as well as his son who remains poised to reap lucrative legal fees from lawsuits over HPV vaccine Gardasil if the Secretary pushes related special vaccine court cases to civil court.
“It’s perhaps easy for RFK Jr. to look at Donald Trump and Commerce Secretary Lutnick blatantly abuse the power of the White House to enrich themselves, family members, and big donors, and say ‘Why not me?’,” said Kayla Hancock, Director of Protect Our Care’s Public Health Project. “Kennedy claims he’s following ethics rules, but why did he keep the barn door open for his son and close associates to profit off his policy decisions? It follows a corrupt pattern of Trump administration officials exploiting loopholes to steer money into their family and friends’ pockets at the same time they rip away health care from millions of Americans and push policies that hike costs on everything from insurance premiums, gas, to groceries.”
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