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USDA, GIPSA, FEMA, Now FDA?

Mike

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Administration News | Former FDA Commissioner Lester Crawford Under Criminal Investigation for Industry Financial Ties
[May 01, 2006]

Former FDA Commissioner Lester Crawford is under criminal investigation by a federal grand jury over allegations of financial improprieties and false statements to Congress, his lawyer, Barbara Van Gelder, said Friday, the New York Times reports (Harris, New York Times, 4/29). Crawford left FDA in September 2005, two months after his Senate confirmation, saying it was time for someone else to lead the agency. According to financial disclosure forms, Crawford or his wife held shares in several companies whose business is regulated by FDA as late as 2004, when Crawford was FDA's acting commissioner. The HHS Office of Inspector General confirmed in October 2005 that it had launched an investigation into Crawford's departure (Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report, 10/26/05). Van Gelder, who would not discuss the allegations further, told a federal magistrate in a court hearing conducted by telephone on Thursday that she would tell Crawford to invoke his Fifth Amendment rights against compelled self-incrimination if requested to respond to questions about his actions as FDA commissioner (New York Times, 4/29). The criminal investigation was disclosed in a hearing on procedural matters in a civil suit filed against FDA over its handling of the emergency contraceptive Plan B (Wilke, Wall Street Journal, 5/1). Crawford was scheduled to be questioned under oath in the Plan B trial on Thursday, but Van Gelder asked for a delay on Wednesday, saying she would instruct Crawford to invoke his Fifth Amendment rights. Van Gelder said that Crawford is under criminal investigation and that the issue of his financial disclosures "is within the grand jury" (New York Times, 4/29).
 

Sandhusker

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Wasn't Crawford the fella who was bad-mouthing one of R-CALF's witnesses? It appears we may have a credibility void forming.
 

Mike

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Sandhusker said:
Wasn't Crawford the fella who was bad-mouthing one of R-CALF's witnesses? It appears we may have a credibility void forming.

Yea, Crawford said that Anthony Cox was not credible in a previous FDA hearing. Steve Dittmer made a big deal out of it.
 
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Anonymous

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I will probably be labeled as a Bush basher- but as a person who voted twice for him and still supports his war on terrorism policy, I think I have the right-- that said this administration will probably go down in history as the most scandalous for blindly supporting Big Money and Corporate Interests- and putting their interests above those of average citizens and consumers...

The stories are still circulating that the next to be brought into the Abramoff scandal will be Interior Dept. folks and Gale Norton...

Tommy Thompson left HHS because he would not change his morals and ideals to fit what the Corporate world wanted.......
 
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