A watchdog group has accused Robert Charrow, the general counsel at the Department of Health and Human Services, of pushing to ease testing rules to help his former clients in the medical device and diagnostic industry.


“This is the definition of the swamp that President Trump had promised to drain,” said Eli Zupnick, a spokesman for the progressive watchdog group Accountable Pharma, in a statement to Salon.

“Americans are losing trust in the administration”, he continued, especially in the face of evidence that “far too many political appointees at Azar’s Department of Health and Human Services care more about helping their special interest friends and allies than protecting patients and families.”

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