Kamala Harris disregarded staff recommendation to investigate Herbalife — while husband Doug Emhoff’s firm repped the company
Documents obtained by The Post indicate that Kamala Harris ignored calls from her staff to investigate Herbalife for pyramid-scheme behavior while serving as Attorney General of California — all while her husband, Douglas Emhoff, worked for the law firm representing Herbalife.
According to the documents, Harris’s staff recommended she investigate the Los Angeles-based company, which sells dietary supplements and weight loss shakes through individual sellers in a multi-level marketing structure.
In a March 2015 memo addressed to then-AG Harris, her staff suggested investigating allegations that the company was “engaging in a number of tactics designed to maximize the number of distributors selling its products, which results in cash flow back to those at the top of the organizational pyramid.”
The documents obtained by The Post corroborate that Harris’s employees acknowledged there was “need for formal investigative authority” to determine whether the company attempted “to skirt around” regulations preventing Herbalife from making “false or misleading representations” about its products or the profits distributors could make.
The memo, written by Supervising Deputy Attorney General Judith Fiorentini and Deputy Attorneys General Sanna Singer and Jinsook Otha, suggested interviewing former distributors, subpoenaing company documents and deploying undercover investigators.
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