Good Tuesday Morning, Fellow Seekers.

If you thought the nasty race between GOP guv candidates Scott Wagner and Paul Mango was suddenly going to take a turn for the nice as it heads into its final furlong, think again.

Though he's best known as a former healthcare consultant for giants McKinsey & Co., Mango also did a five-year stint as the head of a Pittsburgh biotech firm that doesn't appear anywhere on his resume.

While Mango ran The Institute for Transfusion Medicine, the company was sued for its part in providing tainted blood, allegedly tainted by the Hepatitis C virus, to a Pittsburgh hospital, the newspaper reported.

From The Post-Gazette:

"Missing from most of his public bios and LinkedIn resume, though, is a five-year stint from 1991 to 1996 when he served as executive vice president and chief operating officer at the Institute for Transfusion Medicine, a private biotech services firm in Pittsburgh.

"It was during this time that a Glassport man alleged he contracted Hepatitis C from a blood transfusion at UPMC-Presbyterian, with blood provided by the Central Blood Bank, a subsidiary of the institute. Matthew Massaro sued the institute, the blood bank and the New York Blood Center in 2001, two years after he tested positive for the virus, alleging that transfusions he received over 21 days from Dec. 1991 to Jan. 1992 were contaminated, according to a civil complaint. The lawsuit was settled in 2005.

"Mr. Mango confirmed his role with the institute from 1991 to 1996, but said he has no recollection of the lawsuit, and wasn't involved in the suit or the settlement."



As you might expect, Wagner's campaign had a thing or two to say about the lawsuit.

The lawsuit highlights Mango's "failure as an executive," and the "obvious struggle he's gone [through] to hide his role in the scandal from the public," Wagner's campaign spokesman, Andrew Romeo, said in an email.

"If Paul Mango truly did nothing wrong while at the Institute for Transfusion Medicine, he would not have omitted it from every single biographical source he has on the internet," Romeo said. "We're certainly not surprised that Mango would hide this information from the public. He's had a very distant relationship with the truth throughout the election."

Wagner's campaign has been keeping a running tally of the falsehoods it alleges that Mango has been spreading on the trail this spring.

But as we've highlighted elsewhere, Wagner's campaign hasn't been above playing footsie with the truth when the circumstances have suited it. That includes an early campaign ad that falsely alleges that Mango accepted a $2 million, no-bid loan from the administration of Gov. Tom Wolf.

Then there was this whopper when Wagner set himself up as an amateur climate scientist.

In an email, Mango's spokesman, Matthew Beynon, said Mango led the company's clinical division, not its blood bank, and "had nothing to do with the issue in question."

"Paul Mango has never shied away from talking about his work with the Institute for Transfusion Medicine," Beynon said. "In fact, he recently highlighted it during a profile with the Allentown Morning Call. He's proud of the work they did and the thousands they helped."

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