Dr. Oz is known nationally as the retired physician-turned-television-personality who became famous largely thanks to his ties to Oprah Winfrey.
This year, Oz won the Republican primary in the Pennsylvania Senate race and will be the party’s contender in the midterms. He has made a fortune from TV—$9.3 million in pretax earnings last year alone, according to a government financial disclosure. He also raked in just under $1 million last year for speeches and appearances for the likes of Warner Bros. and the American Pistachio Growers Association, as well as from royalties for a medical device he patented with colleagues at Columbia University, where he was a professor of surgery. But much of Oz’s fortune, not to mention his ties to Pennsylvania, come from a different source.
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