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JohnSJ

(92,403 posts)
Wed Mar 24, 2021, 11:36 AM Mar 2021

GSK fires ex-Operation Warp Speed chief Moncef Slaoui over 'substantiated' sexual harassment claims

Source: CNBC

Moncef Slaoui, who was chief scientist for the U.S government’s Covid vaccine development effort Operation Warp Speed during the Trump administration, was fired as Galvani Bioelectronics chairman over “substantiated” sexual harassment allegations by a woman, it was announced Wednesday.

Slaoui’s dismissal by the board of Galvani majority shareholder GlaxoSmithKline came after GSK in February was sent a letter “containing allegations of sexual harassment and inappropriate conduct towards an employee of GSK by Dr. Slaoui,” GSK said in a statement.

That conduct “occurred several years ago when he was an employee of GSK,” the statement said.

Slaoui, 61, had spent 30 years at GSK, overseeing vaccine development at that pharmaceutical giant.

“Upon receipt of the letter, the GSK Board immediately initiated an investigation with an experienced law firm to investigate the allegations,” GSK said.

“The investigation of Dr. Slaoui’s conduct substantiated the allegations and is ongoing.”

“Dr. Slaoui’s behaviours are wholly unacceptable,” GSK said.

Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/24/moncef-slaoui-fired-from-galvani-bioelectronics-board-of-directors-over-sexual-harassment-allegations.html

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GSK fires ex-Operation Warp Speed chief Moncef Slaoui over 'substantiated' sexual harassment claims (Original Post) JohnSJ Mar 2021 OP
Yes please, he's a lying schnook and a crook soothsayer Mar 2021 #1
It's Faux pas Mar 2021 #2
A predator's radar is always out and working Cozmo Mar 2021 #3
I Faux pas Mar 2021 #4
I know a lot about predators and have made it my business to know Cozmo Mar 2021 #5

Cozmo

(1,402 posts)
3. A predator's radar is always out and working
Wed Mar 24, 2021, 09:15 PM
Mar 2021

That's how they find their prey and find each other. Unfortunately it's not as amazing as we would like to think it is.

Faux pas

(14,690 posts)
4. I
Wed Mar 24, 2021, 11:53 PM
Mar 2021

know what you're saying is true. It's just hard to wrap your mind around those kind things when your brain isn't wired that way. For instance, the epstein horror, I say if you've been on his plane you're a member of "The Club".

Cozmo

(1,402 posts)
5. I know a lot about predators and have made it my business to know
Fri Mar 26, 2021, 01:46 AM
Mar 2021

Because it is so horrific and so outside my realm of reality. If we don't know who these predators are, we can't protect ourselves and others. Sat on a jury with unaware jurors who also couldn't fathom how a stepfather could molest his daughter. Needless to say, because I knew their drill, I hung the jury. I know, reality isn't pretty. That's why I've researched it so much. Take care!

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