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Saw it. Just churns in the Breitbart Free Beacon loop. You around for a
call?
On Aug 29, 2014 11:12 AM, "Cheryl Mills" <[email protected]> wrote:
> fysa
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Heather Samuelson <[email protected]>
> Date: Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 10:27 AM
> Subject: Podesta/Wyss
> To: Cheryl Mills <[email protected]>,
>
>
> I happened to come across this yesterday. Wanted to share in case you
> missed it last month. A couple other similar outlets, such as Free
> Beacon, picked it up too.
>
>
> http://washingtonexaminer.com/three-people-died-in-illegal-human-experiments-carried-out-by-john-podesta-backers-firm/article/2551139
>
> Three
> <http://washingtonexaminer.com/three-people-died-in-illegal-human-experiments-carried-out-by-john-podesta-backers-firm/article/2551139>
> people died in illegal human experiments carried out by John Podesta
> backer's firm
> BY RICHARD POLLOCK <http://washingtonexaminer.com/author/richard-pollock>
> <https://plus.google.com/115638159795051915448?rel=author> | JULY 23,
> 2014 | 5:00 AM
> TOPICS: WATCHDOG <http://washingtonexaminer.com/watchdog> BARACK OBAMA
> <http://washingtonexaminer.com/politics/barack-obama> CENTER FOR AMERICAN
> PROGRESS
> <http://washingtonexaminer.com/section/center-for-american-progress> FDA
> <http://washingtonexaminer.com/section/fda> ACCOUNTABILITY
> <http://washingtonexaminer.com/watchdog/accountability> JOHN PODESTA
> <http://washingtonexaminer.com/section/john-podesta>
>
> John Podesta <http://washingtonexaminer.com/section/john-podesta>, one of President
> Obama <http://washingtonexaminer.com/section/barack-obama>'s closest
> White House advisers, counts among his key financial supporters Hansjorg
> Wyss, a reclusive Swiss billionaire whose company conducted illegal human
> experiments that resulted in the deaths of three elderly patients.
>
> Justice Department
> <http://washingtonexaminer.com/section/justice-department> attorneys negotiated
> a $23.8 million plea deal
> <http://www.fda.gov/ICECI/CriminalInvestigations/ucm228273.htm> in 2011
> with Synthes Inc., and Norian Corporation, its wholly owned subsidiary, and
> sent four of its U.S. executives to prison. The money was paid to the
> federal government.
>
> Two of the victims died in a California
> <http://washingtonexaminer.com/section/california> hospital and the third
> perished in a Texas <http://washingtonexaminer.com/section/texas> medical
> facility. One of the California victims was Ryoichi Kikuchi, 83, who died
> on the operating table at John Muir Hospital in Walnut Creek on Sept. 19,
> 2009.
>
> He was a prize-winning physicist who analyzed the thermodynamic behavior
> of liquids and gases and worked at scientific centers at the Massachusetts
> Institute of Technology, the University of California at Berkeley, the Max
> Planck Institute in Germany
> <http://washingtonexaminer.com/section/germany> and the National Bureau
> of Standards.
>
> The federal judge who heard the case said the company's "pattern of
> deception is unparalleled.”
>
> Synthes was a Swiss medical device firm with U.S. corporate offices in
> West Chester, Pa. Wyss opened the U.S. office in 1974 and was CEO until the
> company was bought by Johnson & Johnson in 2012 for $21.3 billion.
>
> The *Washington Examine*r asked a White House spokesman whether the
> president was aware of Podesta’s relationship with Wyss or of the three
> deaths when Podesta was invited to join the chief executive's inner circle.
> The spokesman declined to respond.
>
> Podesta, who was White House chief of staff under President Bill Clinton
> <http://washingtonexaminer.com/section/bill-clinton>, and Wyss have been
> financially linked for years. Among the Swiss billionaire's largest gifts
> in recent years have been those made to the Center for American Progress
> <http://washingtonexaminer.com/section/center-for-american-progress>.
>
> CAP received $4.1 million from Wyss during Podesta's tenure as the liberal
> nonprofit’s founding president and chief executive officer. A CAP spokesman
> declined to respond to the *Examiner*'s request for information about the
> Podesta-Wyss relationship.
>
> The HJW Foundation, which is Wyss's private foundation, hired Podesta in
> 2013 as a paid consultant, for which he was paid $87,000 that year,
> according to the presidential counselor’s financial disclosure statement.
>
> A HJW spokesman declined to respond to the *Examiner*’s questions about
> the kind of work Podesta performed for the fee.
>
> Wyss has a seat on CAP's 10-member board of directors, which also includes
> former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright; former Senate Majority Leader
> Tom Daschle, D-S.D.; and Carol Browner, Obama's first energy czar and
> administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
> <http://washingtonexaminer.com/section/epa>under Clinton.
>
> Podesta's think tank is the fourth-largest recipient of Wyss money among
> 27 liberal nonprofit activist groups the Swiss billionaire has supported
> since 2008, according to the HJW Foundation'sInternal Revenue Service
> <http://washingtonexaminer.com/section/irs> tax returns.
>
> The IRS 990 tax returns for all of the groups can be reviewed via the
> Examiner's Citizen Audit database.
> <http://washingtonexaminer.com/data/citizen-audit>
>
> CAP itself was the largest single recipient of HJW contributions in 2011
> and 2012, according to the foundation’s IRS filling.
>
> Wyss and other Synthes executives decided to enter the highly profitable
> field of spinal surgery in 2000 with Norian XR, a cement-like mixture of
> calcium phosphate with barium sulfate.
>
> Company managers claimed the compound could act like bone when injected in
> the spine in a procedure called "vertebrosplasty."
>
> Federal prosecutors noted that at the time there was "excitement about
> using Norian for vertebroplasties" at Synthes, even though the U.S. Food
> and Drug Administration <http://washingtonexaminer.com/section/fda> had
> not approved its use on the spine. FDA approval could take at least three
> years.
>
> Company managers, however, decided not to seek FDA approval for Norian XR
> on the spine. Instead, they conducted unauthorized human experiments over a
> four-year period that included the three deaths.
>
> FDA officials got wind of the deadly experiments and dispatched Capt.
> Joseph Despins in May 2004 to conduct an unannounced inspection, which kept
> him at the company until June 18.
>
> Despins' findings subsequently became the basis for a federal indictment
> of the company
> <http://www.justice.gov/usao/pae/News/2009/jun/synthesrelease.pdf>, its
> subsidiary and four of its officers, which was filed June 16, 2009.
>
> U.S. District Judge Legrome D. Davis said during a 2011 sentencing hearing
> following the plea agreement that the two firms ran “rogue clinical
> trials,” conducted “illegal training of spine surgeons” and “in search of
> profits, chose not to tell the FDA the truth.”
>
> He also said they “did not stop the testing until three elderly patients
> had died on the operating table over the period of a year. … This pattern
> of deception is unparalleled.”
>
> Four Synthes executives went to jail, each for varying terms of less than
> one year, in the plea agreement. They admitted their company had
> feloniously conspired “to defraud the United States” in an effort “to
> impair and impede the lawful functions of the Food and Drug Administration.”
>
> Wyss was not named in the indictment but was referred to as “Person No. 7”
> and the “CEO and a major stockholder of Synthes.” Wyss was CEO and major
> stockholder at the time of the indictment and the experiments.
>
> Wyss, who now lives in Wyoming
> <http://washingtonexaminer.com/section/wyoming>, is a major donor to
> scores of liberal groups in this country, with his contributions estimated
> to total more than $110 million, according to the HJW Foundation's tax
> filings with the IRS since 2008.
>
> The Swiss Broadcasting Corp. reported last year that Wyss was the
> second-richest person inSwitzerland
> <http://washingtonexaminer.com/section/switzerland>. He is the 112th
> wealthiest man in the world, with a net worth estimated at $11.2 billion by
> Forbes magazine.
>
> Despite his relationship with Podesta and active role in funding liberal
> political activism, Wyss is not well known to the American public.
>
> In fact, George Soros <http://washingtonexaminer.com/section/george-soros>,
> the high-profile financial supporter of many liberal groups, has given less
> to CAP than Wyss.
>
> Wyss told a Swiss newspaper in a rare interview in 2011 that “nobody knows
> me, and I hope that it stays like this,” according to Fortune.
>
> But federal court documents paint a graphic description of his firm's
> brazen decision to ignore the FDA’s drug approval procedures, which are
> intended to assure patient safety.
>
> The FDA had previously approved another Synthes-produced substance for use
> in treating injured bones in the arm.
>
> But in order for XR to be used in spinal cases, the company had to
> complete the government’s Investigational Device Exemption process.
>
> Regardless of whether the company pursued the IDE process, however, the
> FDA required Synthes to include a warning label on the XR compound's
> container stating it was “not intended for the treatment of vertebral
> compression fractures.”
>
> Wyss and his subordinates decided during a Nov. 15, 2001, meeting to forgo
> the IDE process and to proceed with the unauthorized human experiments,
> according to the indictment.
>
> “Person No. 7 decided that Synthes would not pursue an IDE study,” the
> indictment said, referring directly to Wyss. The meeting minutes noted the
> CEO and his subordinates ordered 60-80 test procedures without FDA approval.
>
> In a pre-sentencing report, Assistant U.S. Attorney Mary Crawley described
> Wyss’s role: “After this [November] meeting Wyss, the CEO and major
> shareholder of Synthes, directed that Synthes would not pursue FDA approval
> of Norian XR via an IDE,” but “would press on with a ‘test market’” with
> surgeons.
>
> Crawley also said the Synthes test market programs “were not slow or
> cautious, or careful, or motivated by patient safety.”
>
> Davis said at a Dec. 13, 2011, sentencing hearing for Michael D. Huggins,
> one of the convicted Synthes executives, that “the safer and lawful
> approval route was expressly rejected.”
>
> “One of the most offensive things was the little piddly sentence they got
> for this,” complained Eva Sloan, whose elderly mother, Lois Eskind, died
> during an XR experiment, according to Fortune.
>
> Sloan filed a separate wrongful death lawsuit against the company in 2012
> that charged “willful, wanton, malicious and reckless misconduct.”
>
> The four executives “could have gone to 7-Eleven and stolen a six-pack of
> beer and got more time,” she said.
>
> Sloan’s lawsuit was settled out of court. Laura Feld, Sloan’s attorney,
> said she could not comment because the settlement included a
> confidentiality agreement.
>
> Defense attorney Brent J. Gurney told Davis at a sentencing hearing he
> thought Wyss was the missing person at the table.
>
> “There is another person who is not present in this process,” he said
> while representing former Synthes executive Richard E. Bohner, “and that is
> the former chairman, CEO, controlling shareholder of the company, Mr. Wyss.”
>
> Gurney, a former U.S. attorney, said, “Mr. Wyss was a highly involved
> owner of Synthes. The record shows that at the very beginning, it was he
> who made some of the very critical decisions that put the company on its
> ultimate pathway.”
>
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