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  • August 31, 2016 at 8:04 am #51941
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    This is a big story locally, and across WV. Mylan is a big-pharma company with a big presence in my town. And Heather Manchin Bresch is the daughter of Senator Joe Manchin of WV. (The Manchin name is to WV what the Kennedy name is to the US)

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    https://theintercept.com/2016/08/24/epipen-uproar-highlights-companys-family-ties-to-congress/
    “…The CEO of a former Fortune 500 company, who is also the daughter of a U.S. senator, is under fire for jacking up the rates of life-saving anti-allergy device known as the EpiPen…
    ….Bresch, born Heather Manchin, started at Mylan in 1992. She was hired after her father, then a West Virginia state senator, told then-CEO Mike Puskar that she needed a job….”

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    …and a little background on Heather Manchin Bresch, CEO of Mylan.
    http://www.businessinsider.com/mylan-ceo-heather-bresch-west-virginia-university-mba-scandal-2016-8
    “…As it turns out, this isn’t CEO Heather Bresch’s first brush with controversy. In 2008, West Virginia University stripped her of an MBA that she claimed she earned.

    The situation began when the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette made a routine call to verify Bresch’s credentials as the new head of Mylan. Accusations of political cronyism and the resignation of three WVU faculty members followed….”

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