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2018
- Former Trump communications aide, Josh Raffel, takes job with Juul
2019
- Former as counselor to the President Trump, Johnny DeStefano, takes job with Juul
Among Juul lobbyists
- Former Obama administration Department of Health and Human Services assistant secretary,
Jim Esquea
- Former top policy aide to former House Speaker Paul Ryan, Ted McCann
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A Member of the U.S. Congress (2009 - ) with no prior public office
experience and a nondescript baccalaureate degree puffs e-cigarette during
Congressional meeting
- 2016: Rep. Duncan Hunter puffs “from a nicotine vaporizer during a congressional committee meeting”
- 2017: Rep. Duncan Hunter smokes an e-cigarette during a bill markup that he opposes, a “ban e-cigarettes on airplanes.”
- August 21, 2018: Duncan Duane Hunter and his wife are indicted by federal grand jury of the United States District Court for the Southern District of California “on 60 counts of wire fraud, falsifying records, campaign finance violations, and conspiracy.”
- “The San Diego U.S. Attorney’s Office accused the couple of conspiring to misuse $250,000 in campaign funds for personal expenses … including vacations in Italy and Hawaii, theater tickets, and purchases in the gaming platform Steam; (and) … filing false campaign finance reports.”
According to a report by the Office of Congressional Ethics
“‘Rep. Hunter may have converted tens of thousands of dollars of campaign funds from his congressional campaign committee to personal use to pay for family travel, flights, utilities, health care, school uniforms, and tuition, jewelry, groceries, and other goods, services, and expenses.’”
Polyester and plastics
manufacturer while on the “Finance Council of the Roman Catholic Diocese of
Green Bay” opposes “Wisconsin bill that would have eliminated the time limit
for future child sex abuse victims to bring lawsuits while allowing an
additional three years for past victims to sue” is later elected and reelected to
the U.S. Senate without prior public office qualifications.
- 2016: Senator Ron John “sent two letters to Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Robert M. Califf asking him to justify the agency’s plans to begin regulating the $3 billion vapor market beginning later this summer.”
- 2017: During his tenure as U.S. Senator, Ronald “Ron” Harold Johnson (net worth $10.4 million), opponent vaping regulation, gives the keynote speech at the Vaping Industry conference held at Donald John Trump’s “International Hotel in Washington, D.C.” in which he “pushes the Food and Drug Administration to change the “2016 rule requiring e-cigarette makers get federal approval.”
Johnson reportedly advised the Vapor industry lobbyists to argue their
case by placing emphasis on that industry’s purported “job creation” and regulation’s
alleged effect on “hundreds of small vaping businesses.”
Less than two weeks after the conference the Food and Drug Administration
announces “that manufacturers of e-cigarettes and cigars already on the market
would get a reprieve of four years — since changed to three years — before (being)
required to get agency approval.”
- June 2018 Vaping Industry Keynote speaker at Trump Hotel: then-U.S. Rep. Ryan Costello urging if companies “hoped to fight off regulation,” they must ….
“Lead with ‘improved public health outcomes from those switching’ (to
e-cigarettes), and then the economic impact: ‘How many jobs will this
legislation cost? How many small businesses will close?’”
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U.S. President Donald Trump serving as president with no prior public
office
- 2016 and 2017: During his tenure as U.S. President and owner of Trump properties including Trump “International Hotel in Washington, DC hosts and is paid by the Vaping Industry. IN these years, “the Vapor Technology Association meets at Trump’s hotel to strategize how to lobby the (Trump) administration.”
President’s conflict of interest
- A former legal adviser to several Republican presidential campaigns tells the press that “Whether it is foreign governments or e-cigarette companies, there is a perception that staying at a Trump hotel benefits the patron in some way”
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It must be hard to stop it when you are it—corrupt, the embodiment of
corruption, that is. It must be a lot like nicotine addiction. Once you start,
it’s hard to stop. Once it’s in your veins and in the veins of all in your
orbit, you no longer recognize addiction as addiction — corruption as corruption.
Thus Americans find themselves being led by a Cabal that is unspeakably
Corrupt
to the Core.
Sources
Milwaukee, Wisconsin Journal Sentinel No Quarter “Ron Johnson pursues
radio talker’s vaping cause” Daniel Bice June 30, 2016
http://archive.jsonline.com/watchdog/noquarter/ron-johnson-pursues-radio-talkers-vaping-cause-b99753569z1-384956641.html/
The Intelligencer “Vaping group plotted lobbying efforts at Trump’s DC
hotel” by Bernard Condon, Associated Press (updated) September 11, 2019 https://www.theintelligencer.com/news/medical/article/Vaping-group-plotted-lobbying-efforts-at-Trump-s-14432918.php
New York Times “Juul Illegally Marketed E-Cigarettes, F.D.A. Says: The
agency sent a warning letter to the company, saying it violated regulations by
touting its vaping products as safer than traditional tobacco cigarettes” by Sheila
Kaplan and Matt Richtel September 9, 2019 updated September 11, 2019 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/09/health/vaping-juul-e-cigarettes-fda.html
The Hill “Congressman vapes during committee meeting to prove point … The
vaping congressman is back at it again” by Melanie Zanona June 27, 2017 https://thehill.com/policy/transportation/339725-congressman-vapes-again-during-committee-meeting
News Observer “Vaping group plotted lobbying efforts at Trump’s DC
hotel” by Bernard Condon Associated Press September 11, 2019 updated September
12, 2019
https://www.newsobserver.com/news/article234995802.html
Wikipedia
Duncan Hunter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_D._Hunter
Ron Johnson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Johnson_(Wisconsin_politician)
John DeStefano https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_DeStefano
Week 58 of Trump presidency: Tuesday February 27, 2018: Josh Raffel, a
senior communications aide, announced his resignation from the administration
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_DeStefano
Pro Publica
In Q2, JUUL LABS, INC. formerly JIM R ESQUEA had in-house lobbyists.
The report was filed on July 20, 2018. Original Filing: 300974547.xml
Lobbying Issues: Regulation of e-cigarettes and vaping products
designed to improve the lives of adult smokers; Agencies Lobbied: U.S. Senate, U.S.
House of Representatives
Type of Issue: JUUL LABS, INC. formerly JIM R ESQUEA filed a lobbying
registration on July 19, 2018 for in-house lobbying efforts, effective April
23, 2018. Original Filing: 300969429.xml
Issue(s) they said they’d lobby about: Regulation of e-cigarettes and
vaping products designed to improve the lives of adult smokers.
https://projects.propublica.org/represent/lobbying/301018346
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