Vice President Kamala Harris ignored recommendations while attorney general of California to investigate an alleged pyramid scheme at a company linked to her husband, according to documents obtained by The New York Post.
The Post reported on Saturday that it had documents showing that Harris discounted recommendations from staff to investigate Herbalife in 2015 over pyramid scheme suspicions at the same time her husband Doug Emhoff worked at a law firm that represented Herbalife. Herbalife is a Los Angeles based dietary supplement company that was sued by the Federal Trade Commission in 2016 over accusations that the company was lying to customers about how much money they could make selling Herbalife products.
While she was attorney general, Harris was given a memo from her staff saying that Herbalife was “engaging in a number of tactics designed to maximize the number of…
