A recent investigation by The Intercept revealed that Sen. Joe Manchin's's daughter worked with Pfizer Inc. in 2016 to monopolize and raise the price of the EpiPen while the company gave generous campaign donations to Manchin.
Manchin's daughter, Heather Bresch, was the president and chief executive officer of Mylan Inc., a pharmaceutical company that specialized in generic drugs.
Bresch left the company in 2020 after Mylan merged with Upjohn, Pfizer's generic division, in November 2020, to form Viatris Inc. Bresch began working at the company in 1992, and became CEO in 2012.
Manchin's campaign also received the most money from Mylan's PAC in the 2010 election cycle.
In the 2016 and 2018 cycles, Bresch again donated the maximum amount of $5,000 to the PAC, but no money from the PAC went to her father's campaign.
At a Forbes event the day after she was supposed to testify, Bresch stated that while she was apologetic for the company raising the price of the drug, the higher costs were due to "Improvements" to the design of the delivery mechanism.
Manchin stood by his daughter in 2016 and said that they had to keep the business parts of their lives "Separate." He also continued to accept campaign contributions from Mylan.
https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2021/09/manchin-large-campaign-contributions-epipen-scandal/
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