Word: sandefur
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...gangsters are tobacco barons in Louisville, Ky., and network lawyers in New York City. They speak in genial or condoling tones; they have only the best interests of their corporations at heart and truly hope you see it their way. Otherwise they'll crush you. Brown & Williamson CEO Thomas Sandefur (played by Michael Gambon) has a manner as smooth as the draw of a Kool menthol into the lungs, and every bit as toxic. A CBS attorney (Gina Gershon) softly, crisply tells the lords of 60 Minutes that they must submit to a higher authority--Mammon. The byline is nothing...
DIED. THOMAS SANDEFUR, 56, Brown & Williamson's ex-chairman who, along with other tobacco chiefs, told Congress in 1994 that he did not believe nicotine was addictive; of aplastic anemia; in Louisville, Kentucky...
Wigand's allegations, while not totally surprising, have a shattering specificity. For example, he recalls many instances in which former B&W chief Thomas Sandefur acknowledged nicotine's addictive power. Federal prosecutors are weighing possible perjury charges against a number of executives, including Sandefur, who declared under oath during 1994 congressional hearings that nicotine is not addictive. They would be interested in exchanges such as this one from Wigand's Mississippi deposition: "Q: Did Mr. Sandefur have a position that if science affected sales, the science would take the back door?" Wigand responded...
Wigand also remembers vivid scenes of his employers' covering their tracks in anticipation of the very lawsuits they are now battling. He alleges, for instance, that, with Sandefur's approval, a company lawyer deleted 12 pages from the minutes of a meeting attended by Wigand and other top scientists from B&W's affiliates in which there was discussion of developing a "safer cigarette...
...former chief of research at Brown & Williamson, the nation's third largest cigarette manufacturer, accused his company's former chairman of perjury. In a pretrial deposition obtained by the Wall Street Journal, Jeffrey Wigand charged that in 1994 chairman Thomas Sandefur told Congress he did not believe nicotine was addictive when in fact he was saying privately that his company was "in the nicotine-delivery business." Wigand also accused B&W lawyers of concealing potentially damaging research. The disclosure prompted cbs News to air on Friday part of a 60 Minutes interview with Wigand that it had declined to broadcast...