Robert F Kennedy Jr says he will keep his share of any windfall from litigation against pharmaceutical company Merck even if he becomes Donald Trump’s top US health official, ethics records show.
In an ethics agreement published on Wednesday, Kennedy said he would keep his share of potential winnings from the case brought by law firm Wisner Baum against Merck’s Gardasil vaccine, which prevents human papillomavirus, known as HPV.
“I am entitled to receive 10 per cent of fees awarded in contingency fee cases referred to the firm,” said Kennedy, a co-counsel at Wisner Baum, in a letter to the top ethics tsar at the US Department of Health and Human Services.