Word: tobacco
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...government’s six-year-old lawsuit charges the nation’s six largest tobacco companies with having conspired over the past 50 years to deceive the public about the dangers and addictiveness of smoking...
...attempt to undermine this critical part of the Department’s case cannot possibly be justified,” they wrote. “But it did directly benefit senior tobacco executives—many of whom are major donors to the Republican Party—whose jobs could have been threatened by the remedies proposed by Professor Bazerman...
...both prominent House Democrats, also allege a conflict of interest in McCallum’s involvement in the case. They note that McCallum, who is a political appointee, is a former partner of Alston and Bird, an Atlanta-based law firm that has represented R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, one of the defendants in the case...
McCallum, the congressmen write, is believed to be responsible for the government’s decision to cut its demand for penalties against the tobacco industry in a related case from $130 billion to $10 billion, a move that infuriated antismoking activists and members of Congress...
...ongoing case, the government must prove both that there was a conspiracy on the part of the tobacco companies to commit fraud and that such misconduct will continue if the government does not intervene, Bazerman explained...