Word: blowers
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What the other cigarette companies do is of little interest to LeBow, a takeover artist who has set his sights on R.J.R. Nabisco. "He's in it to make money,'' says Richard Scruggs, one of whistle-blower Jeffrey Wigand's lawyers, who is helping on the Mississippi Medicaid suit. "This is a very sophisticated business transaction by Bennett LeBow." If LeBow can force a merger between Liggett and R.J.R., then R.J.R. will participate in the settlement, moving out from under the shadow of incessant litigation, boosting its stock price and enabling LeBow to split the company's food and tobacco...
...president William Campbell denied that the company controls nicotine or that the chemical is addictive. He also said that the tobacco is never blended to achieve a certain nicotine level. "The testimony of these scientists is very important," says TIME's Elaine Shannon. "The affidavits corroborate the things whistle blower Jeffrey Wigand and the FDA commissioner have been saying. The scientists describe a range of tests that tobacco companies have performed which prove to the industry that nicotine is addictive and that they need to keep a certain level of nicotine in cigarettes to keep people hooked." Shannon reports that...
...Wigand at two medical-device companies in the 1980s and who gave the men no information. But when he learned about the thick dossier the detectives had managed to compile about Wigand, a former vice president of Brown & Williamson and the highest-ranking tobacco executive ever to turn whistle blower, he was appalled. "It hit me like a silver bullet," says Alfarano. "[B&W] can deal with one or two defectors, but I think [they wanted] to send a signal to anybody else who's thinking about testifying...
...dossier B&W compiled about Wigand to help discredit his testimony, the whistle blower comes across as a chronic troublemaker, quick to complain if his consumer goods were lost or damaged. He also left a previous job under something of a cloud. Several weeks ago, Jack Paller, CEO of Biosonics, Inc., a New Jersey medical-device company, told TIME that in 1987 he had demanded the resignation of Wigand, who was chief operating officer, because he was abusive to the staff. Wigand's attorney contends his client was concerned that Paller was misrepresenting the efficacy of a product...
...HEAR SENIOR WRITER ERIC Pooley talk, just about anyone could have produced this week's investigative report on a shocking pattern of safety lapses at a nuclear power plant in Connecticut. "Basically," says Pooley, with characteristic modesty, "it was just a classic whistle-blower tale." No big deal...