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2024-09-24 Government Corruption
Ex-NYC COVID czar fired from job after copping to drug-fueled sex parties during pandemic
[NY Post] Followup story: Karma is a bitch
The city’s ex-COVID czar got the boot from his job at a pharmaceutical firm Monday — a week after he was caught bragging about hosting sex parties and attending an underground rave at the height of the pandemic.

Dr. Jay Varma was serving as a senior health adviser to then-Mayor Bill de Blasio during COVID-19 when he and his wife put on the sex- and drug-fueled debauchery and attended a packed Wall Street rave, according to secretly recorded conversations the doctor had with a woman.

"On September 23, 2024, the Board of Directors of SIGA Technologies (NASDAQ: SIGA) terminated Dr. Jay Varma, effective immediately, other than for cause, from his position as Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer of the Company," the firm wrote in a filing to the Securties and Exchange Commission.

"Pursuant to the terms of his employment agreement, Dr. Varma’s service on the Company’s Board of Directors also automatically ended effective immediately," said the filing, which is required when an event occurs that is deemed to affect public-company shareholders.

Varma critic and city Councilman Bob Holden said in a blistering statement, "Dr. Jay Varma’s firing is a step in the right direction, but the consequences for his actions are long overdue."

"Varma boasted about harassing people into submission over the vaccine mandate and admitted to participating in illegal sex parties, all while he, former Health Commissioner Dr. David Chokshi, and then-Mayor Bill de Blasio imposed draconian measures that shut down the entire city," the Queens Democrat said.

"The hypocrisy is outrageous."

Varma’s seamy chats — which included him boasting, "I did all this deviant, like sexual stuff," and, "I had to be kind of sneaky about it ... because I was running the entire COVID response in the city" — were made public last week by conservative podcaster Steven Crowder.

His firing came as enraged city business owners and parents joined lawmakers on the steps of City Hall on Monday to rally against the randy doctor, saying that while they were masking up, keeping their kids home from school and taking other precautionary measures against deadly COVID — under his instruction — he was getting up close and personal with throngs of people.

"While grandmothers took their last breaths alone on cold hospital beds, Dr. Varma was fulfilling his sick fantasies with hundreds of sweaty strangers," city Councilwoman Inna Vernikov (R-Brooklyn) raged.
Posted by Frank G 2024-09-24 04:03|| || Front Page|| [11192 views ]  Top
 File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats 

#1 Not unlike the Diddy White Parties.
Posted by Skidmark 2024-09-24 09:01||   2024-09-24 09:01|| Front Page Top

#2 A lot of them are probably just mad because he didn't invite them.
Posted by EMS Artifact 2024-09-24 09:14||   2024-09-24 09:14|| Front Page Top

#3 He’s just going from one type of pharma job to another.
Posted by Super Hose 2024-09-24 12:52||   2024-09-24 12:52|| Front Page Top

#4 Who would hire this guy?
For what?
Seriously. I can’t imagine.
I hope somebody does follow up.
Posted by Elmoling Glusons1695 2024-09-24 13:28||   2024-09-24 13:28|| Front Page Top

#5 "Rules are for little people"
Posted by Procopius2k 2024-09-24 17:05||   2024-09-24 17:05|| Front Page Top

#6 Ain't nothin' but a Diddy Party.

While 12 year old birthday girls are arrested for blowing out candles.
Posted by swksvolFF 2024-09-24 20:17||   2024-09-24 20:17|| Front Page Top

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