Showing posts with label ATTORNEY SHANT KARNIKIAN. Show all posts
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Monday, October 5, 2026

RFK Jr. UNDER FIRE as SECRET DEAL Sparks SENATE PROBE...

                                               

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Oct 5, 2026
Attorneys Brian Kabateck and Shant Karnikian dig into HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s quietly reversed ethics commitment over his Gardasil vaccine lawsuit fees, now the subject of a formal Senate inquiry. Kennedy, a longtime vaccine skeptic, originally held a 10% referral-fee stake in roughly 200 Gardasil cases filed by his former firm, Wisner Baum, alleging Merck's HPV vaccine caused cervical cancer — claims a judge rejected on summary judgment for lack of scientific evidence before Merck settled anyway for $50 million in June 2026. Under pressure from Senator Elizabeth Warren during his 2025 confirmation, Kennedy signed an ethics agreement promising to irrevocably assign his Gardasil stake to his adult son Conor, a licensed California attorney at Wisner Baum — but just ten days later, on February 11, 2025, he quietly reassigned the interest back to the firm itself, two days before the Senate confirmed him without knowing about the change. Brian and Shant explain that under the U.S. Office of Government Ethics' own guide to nominee agreements, a sworn ethics commitment can't be rescinded without OGE approval, since the Senate relies on those commitments when voting to confirm. Kennedy didn't publicly disclose the switch until August 1, 2026, posting on X that he'd "relinquished any interest in potential Gardasil fees back to the Wisner Baum law firm" — only after lawmakers' questions forced the issue, and HHS later confirmed the reassignment in writing. Brian and Shant flag the obvious conflict: Kennedy, as HHS Secretary, now directly regulates Merck, the very company that just settled the case tied to his former fee stake. Brian's bottom line: nobody has proven Kennedy personally profited, but the unexplained non-disclosure, the timing two days before confirmation, and the regulatory conflict raise exactly the kind of questions a sitting cabinet secretary should have to answer. Kabateck LLP: Call 1-844-74-CIVIL for a free case evaluation or visit us at https://www.kbklawyers.com/ Subscribe:    / @legalafmtn   Become a member of Legal AF YouTube community:    / @legalafmtn   Become a member of the Legal AF Substack: https://michaelpopok.substack.com/20off Follow Legal AF on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/legalafmtn.b... Follow Michael Popok on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/mspopok.bsky... Subscribe to the Legal AF podcast feed here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Subscribe to the Intersection with Michael Popok podcast feed here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Subscribe to Unprecedented with Michael Popok and Dina Doll podcast feed here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Subscribe to Court of History with Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz podcast feed here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...



Sunday, June 28, 2026

MAGA Congress CAUGHT IN LATE NIGHT BILL!!

                                          

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Jun 28, 2026
Attorneys Brian Kabateck and Shant Karnikian break down the Fong Amendment, inserted into the $580 billion Build America 250 Act at 2 a.m. on May 22 by California MAGA Republican Vince Fong. The provision would preempt state vicarious liability, common carrier, and non-delegable duty doctrines for rideshare companies, reclassifying Uber and Lyft as "digital networks" instead of transportation providers. It would apply retroactively, potentially wiping out 3,000+ pending sexual assault cases consolidated in federal court. Uber spent nearly $1 million lobbying on the bill this quarter alone. The amendment surfaced weeks after a second federal jury hit Uber with an $8.5 million verdict for a driver's sexual assault. One survivor, Jaylynn Dean, wrote to Congress that Uber's own algorithm rated her ride a .81 on a zero-to-one sexual assault risk scale but never warned her, and the driver had been reported multiple times. Brian and Shant explain why the Graves Amendment rental car analogy fails: rental companies don't dispatch drivers, set routes, run background checks, or collect ride data. Uber does all of that. 275 women state lawmakers and 128 House Democrats have demanded the provision be stripped. It passed committee 35-30 but has not reached a floor vote. Kabateck LLP: Call 1-844-74-CIVIL for a free case evaluation or visit us at https://www.kbklawyers.com/ Subscribe:    / @legalafmtn   Become a member of Legal AF YouTube community:    / @legalafmtn   Become a member of the Legal AF Substack: https://michaelpopok.substack.com/20off Follow Legal AF on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/legalafmtn.b... Follow Michael Popok on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/mspopok.bsky... Subscribe to the Legal AF podcast feed here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Subscribe to the Intersection with Michael Popok podcast feed here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Subscribe to Unprecedented with Michael Popok and Dina Doll podcast feed here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Subscribe to Court of History with Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz podcast feed here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...



Sunday, March 29, 2026

WHISTLEBLOWER Drops BOMBSHELL on DOGE?!?!

                 

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Mar 28, 2026
Attorneys Brian Kabateck and Shant Karnikian dig into what could be one of the biggest government data scandals in American history. A whistleblower has alleged that a former DOGE software engineer named John Solly walked out of the Social Security Administration with the personal data of hundreds of millions of Americans on a thumb drive — including Social Security numbers, dates of birth, and names from the NUMIDENT database, which covers nearly every living American. He then allegedly took a job as CTO at Leidos, a government contractor with up to $1.5 billion in SSA contracts, and told coworkers he planned to share the data. The SSA Inspector General is investigating, Congress has launched its own probe, and Solly and the SSA have denied the allegations. Brian and Shant walk through the civil and criminal ramifications — from the False Claims Act and whistleblower protections to federal computer fraud, theft of government property, and Privacy Act violations — and explain why giving unvetted DOGE operatives carte blanche access to the most sensitive government databases was a disaster waiting to happen. Kabateck LLP: Call 1-844-74-CIVIL for a free case evaluation or visit us at https://www.kbklawyers.com/ Subscribe:    / @legalafmtn   Become a member of Legal AF YouTube community:    / @legalafmtn   Become a member of the Legal AF Substack: https://michaelpopok.substack.com/20off Follow Legal AF on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/legalafmtn.b... Follow Michael Popok on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/mspopok.bsky... Subscribe to the Legal AF podcast feed here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Subscribe to the Intersection with Michael Popok podcast feed here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Subscribe to Unprecedented with Michael Popok and Dina Doll podcast feed here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Subscribe to Court of History with Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz podcast feed here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...



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