Magistrate Judge Katharine H. Parker, who is overseeing pre-trial hearings for Luigi Mangione, is married to a former Pfizer executive and holds hundreds of thousands of dollars in stock, including in healthcare companies and pharmaceutical companies, according to her 2023 financial disclosures.

The judge’s ties to the healthcare business are a stark reminder of how pervasive the for-profit industry is in American life — a point made by Mangione himself.

Parker’s husband, Bret Parker, left Pfizer in 2010, where he served as Vice President and assistant general counsel after holding the same titles at Wyeth, a pharmaceutical manufacturer purchased by Pfizer. According to Parker’s disclosures, her husband Bret still collects a pension from his time at Pfizer in the form of a Senior Executive Retirement Plan, or SERP.

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[–] Thordros@hexbear.net 48 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

I was never much for 'conspiracy theories' when I was young. Then all the plausible ones turned out to be true—decades later, freely admitted by the perpetrators. And all the absurd bullshit the government said was actually true, turned out to be bullshit!

US government backdooring every service you use? Confirmed.
Saddam pulled a bunch of Kuwaiti babies out of incubators? Lie!
The Gulf of Tonkin incident is made up a bullshit excuse to put American dick into Vietnam? Confirmed.
Weapons of mass destruction in the A X I S O F E V I L ? ? ? Lie!
The Dalai Lama is a fed? Confirmed.

And let's not forget the "conspiracy theories" of Operation Paperclip, COINTELPRO, MKUltra, and others. Believing in those was crank shit when I was little. All true.

[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 40 points 5 days ago

Every leftist conspiracy theory has turned out to be true. Every right wing one has turned out to be…. Right wingers actually doing it.

[–] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

But these are just facts. Haha

Like @Cruxifux@feddit.nl implied, I meant the types of conspiracy theories Rightists like to waste their time on inventing every other minute so they don't have to address the class issue.

[–] casskaydee@hexbear.net 8 points 5 days ago

A "fact" is what a conspiracy theory evolves into when the government admits it in a FOIA response