RFK Jr. UNDER FIRE as SECRET DEAL Sparks SENATE PROBE...
Legal AF 1.25M subscribers 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 abo...