Vanita Gupta’s troubling corporate ties make her the wrong choice for associate attorney general

It was reported recently that President Joe Biden’s nominee for associate attorney general, Vanita Gupta, owns between $11 million and $55 million in stock in Avantor, a company that manufactures an essential ingredient used to make heroin and methamphetamine.

A Bloomberg report last year revealed that Avantor produces and sells that key ingredient, known as acetic anhydride, within Mexico, packaging it in “containers that are big enough to make lucrative quantities of illegal narcotics but small enough to load into the trunk of a car.”