GOP Senator Urges DOJ Probe of Avantor Link to Drug Crisis
- Cornyn also wants SEC probe of ‘alarming’ lack of disclosures
- Letter cites ‘deeply troubling connection’ to Mexican heroin
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A top Republican senator on Wednesday formally requested that the Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission probe Avantor Inc. for what he called the company’s “deeply troubling connection” to the U.S. opioid crisis.
“I am writing to urge you to conduct an investigation of a publicly-traded American company for its apparent longstanding contribution to the opioid epidemic that killed 50,000 of our fellow citizens in 2019,” Senator John Cornyn of Texas wrote in a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland and Allison Herren Lee, the acting chair of the SEC.