The Heartland Institute wouldn’t normally applaud Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts, but she deserves credit for calling out the crass cronyism among some of the highest level employees of the federal government. Unfortunately, Warren barely scratched the surface on the audacity of unelected and unaccountable executive agency officials who blatantly abuse their positions of power for their own gain.
In a letter, Warren urged former U.S. Food and Drug Administration commissioner Scott Gottlieb to remove himself from the board of directors of Pfizer, a large pharmaceutical firm and a position Gottlieb joined not even three months after leaving his post atop FDA. Warren implored Gottlieb to resign from his swanky position, calling his hiring a “kind of revolving door influence-peddling (that) smacks of corruption, and makes the American people rightfully cynical and distrustful.”
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