{"id":14719,"date":"2018-01-31T21:27:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-31T21:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/2018\/01\/31\/cdc-director-brenda-fitzgerald-resigns-after-reports-show-investment-in-tobacco-stocks\/"},"modified":"2018-01-31T21:27:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-31T21:27:00","slug":"cdc-director-brenda-fitzgerald-resigns-after-reports-show-investment-in-tobacco-stocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/cdc-director-brenda-fitzgerald-resigns-after-reports-show-investment-in-tobacco-stocks\/","title":{"rendered":"CDC Director Brenda Fitzgerald Resigns After Reports Show Investment In Tobacco Stocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-style:italic;font-size:16px\">By  <a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2018\/01\/31\/582240393\/cdc-director-brenda-fitzgerald-resigns-after-reports-show-investment-in-tobacco-?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=healthcare\">Alison Kodjak<\/a><\/span>  <\/p>\n<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2018\/01\/31\/582240393\/cdc-director-brenda-fitzgerald-resigns-after-reports-show-investment-in-tobacco-?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=healthcare\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/media.npr.org\/include\/images\/facebook-default-wide.jpg?s=1400\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Brenda Fitzgerald, director for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, resigned on Wednesday because of financial conflicts of interest. The chief public health official bought stocks in tobacco and health care companies after she started working at the agency.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/\">Let&#8217;s block ads!<\/a><\/strong> <a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/acceptable.html\">(Why?)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2018\/01\/31\/582240393\/cdc-director-brenda-fitzgerald-resigns-after-reports-show-investment-in-tobacco-?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=healthcare\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"CDC Director Brenda Fitzgerald Resigns After Reports Show Investment In Tobacco Stocks\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2018\/01\/31\/582240393\/cdc-director-brenda-fitzgerald-resigns-after-reports-show-investment-in-tobacco-?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=healthcare<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2018\/01\/31\/582240393\/cdc-director-brenda-fitzgerald-resigns-after-reports-show-investment-in-tobacco-?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=healthcare\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/media.npr.org\/include\/images\/facebook-default-wide.jpg?s=1400\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Brenda Fitzgerald, director for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, resigned on Wednesday because of financial conflicts of interest. The chief public health official bought stocks in tobacco and health care companies after she started working at the agency.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/\">Let&#8217;s block ads!<\/a><\/strong> <a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/acceptable.html\">(Why?)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}