Phar­ma shells out more than $300K to broth­er of top Biden aide in 3 months

Last year, con­tro­ver­sy swirled around a slate of phar­ma com­pa­nies that paid Jeff Ric­chet­ti — the broth­er of long­time Biden ad­vi­sor Steve Ric­chet­ti — to lob­by leg­is­la­tors and the ex­ec­u­tive of­fice of the pres­i­dent.

This year, it ap­pears some com­pa­nies are get­ting deep­er in­to lob­by­ing with a cou­ple big names, ac­cord­ing to a re­cent doc­u­ment dump from the US House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives.

Well-known in­dus­try trade or­ga­ni­za­tion PhRMA has tapped Jeff Ric­chet­ti for lob­by­ing work this year, pay­ing his com­pa­ny Ric­chet­ti In­cor­po­rat­ed $60,000 for “is­sues re­lat­ed to phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal in­dus­try, gen­er­al­ly,” ac­cord­ing to a quar­ter­ly re­port.

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