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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[–] WhatDoYouMeanPodcast@hexbear.net 47 points 1 day ago

Same shit happened with Steven Donziger when he helped win a case against Chevron in the Amazon. He got a Chevron judge by some loophole because the normal judge wouldn't take the ridiculous case. Then he got put on house arrest for like 200x longer than the longest contempt of court punishment that had ever happened before because he wouldn't surrender his laptop for discovery that had his client's confidential files for a case that was against the prosecution.