Conflicts of interest? Dr. Mehmet Oz owns 150,000 option shares in vaccine tech

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Conflicts of interest?

Dr. Mehmet Oz owns 150,000 option shares in vaccine technology company

_http://doctorsaredangerous.com/articles/conflicts_of_interest.htm_

(http://doctorsaredangerous.com/articles/conflicts_of_interest.htm)

By Mike Adams

 

 

Dr. Mehmet Oz is a huge promoter of vaccines. He's been on television

reinforcing fear about H1N1 swine flu and telling everyone to get vaccinated.

But what he didn't tell his viewing audience is that he holds 150,000 option

shares in a vaccine company that could earn him millions of dollars in

profits as the stock price rises. It is in Dr. Oz's own financial interest, in

other words, to hype up vaccines and get more people taking them so that

his own financial investments rise in value.

 

 

Evidence describing these facts was delivered to NaturalNews by a private

investigator named Joseph Culligan

(_http://webofdeception.com/oprah.html#oz_

(http://webofdeception.com/oprah.html#oz) ). That evidence includes an

SEC document detailing how Dr. Oz. bought options on stocks for SIGA

Technologies in 2005, 2007, 2008 and 2009. SIGA Technologies (stock symbol

SIGA) is

a vaccine technology company with many advanced developments whose success

depends on the widespread adoption of vaccines. According to SEC

documents, Dr. Mehmet Oz. currently holds 150,000 option shares on SIGA

Technologies, purchased for as little as $1.35 back in 2005.

 

 

At the time of this writing, SIGA Technologies is trading at $7.10, making

those options bought in 2005 worth $5.75 in profits today. If all the

150,000 options purchased by Dr. Oz. were exercised today, they would be worth

roughly $180,000 in profits (they were bought at different prices, not all

at $1.35). This is all revealed in what the SEC website calls an " insider

transaction " document (link below).

 

 

These options won't expire until the years 2015 - 2019, and the higher the

stock price of SIGA gets before then, the more profit can be realized when

these options are cashed out. You can see the 2019 expiration date in this

" insider transaction " form: _http://sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/_

(http://sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/) ...

 

 

If the stock price of SIGA Technologies could be pumped up even more --

say, from someone hyping up vaccines in front of a national audience -- these

options could mathematically be worth millions of dollars. Just to

clarify, by the way, SIGA Technologies doesn't currently manufacture a vaccine

for

H1N1 swine flu. It focuses on future vaccine technologies that could be

applied to many different vaccines down the road.

 

 

Dr. Oz. isn't merely a holder of SIGA stock options, by the way: He's on

the Board of Directors! As SIGA's own website explains, Dr. Oz has served on

the board since 2001 and continues his role there today. This brings up the

obvious question:

 

 

Is it right for someone talking about whether vaccines are safe on

television to also be carrying stock options and serving on the board of

directors

of a vaccine company at the same time?

 

 

Just to make things a little more interesting, SIGA Technologies recently

received a $3 million grant in taxpayer dollars from the National

Institutes of Health (NIH). The purpose of the grant money? To fund the study

of a

chemical adjunct named ST-246 to be used in future vaccines. So taxpayer

money is now being used to fund a vaccine technology company whose stock price

increases will financially benefit the very celebrity doctor who is hyping

up vaccines to a national audience.

 

 

Something sounds fishy here...

 

 

Conflict of interest?

 

 

To my knowledge, Dr. Oz. has never disclosed to his viewing audience the

fact that he owns 150,000 option shares of SIGA Technologies. And yet, with

an audience of millions, Dr. Oz has continued to beat the drum of the

vaccine industry, urging people to get vaccinated while implying that vaccines

protect people from swine flu (even though there is absolutely no scientific

evidence to back up that claim).