Vanita Gupta, President Biden's nomination for associate attorney general, should not be approved, now that it has been disclosed she owns $11-55 million in Avantor.
Ahh, Avantor means nothing to you, does it? -- without learning the company operates in Mexico, where it has sold the component allowing the cartels to make heroin and methamphetamine. It can be argued she is divesting in the stock, and didn't realize the product likely drifts into the hands of the cartels, anyway.
Not good enough. You are responsible for your business connections. You are being nominated for a post in an investigative agency. If you don't investigate your own business connections, we better not trust you with those of the nation.
Moreover, it should be noted Avantor is questionable even in the U.S. The company is headquartered in Kensington, Penn., which has been called the largest open-air heroin market on the East Coast. Circumstantial evidence, at best, you say? Well, such a component as acetic anhydride is essential to heroin. You can't have heroin without having a component like acetic anhydride. Yes, having the largest heroin market on the East Coast in the same town where acetic anhydride is marketed should be a concern.
(Story polished early morning 3/21/21, shortly after it was written.)
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