November 2009
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Counter Suit Filed in TD International Partners...
We’ve written several times about the recent legal disputes between Steven K. Fleischmann and his former partners at Washington, DC-based risk consultancy, TD International. The firm filed suit against Fleischmann claiming beach of contract and seeking to recover money they say Fleischmann pocketed by skimming business surreptitiously to a side-business, Tertuim Datur International. The...
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Kroll Hiring in Big Pharma Slap-Fight Brings Calls...
The bad blood between rival drug developers Amphastar and Momenta has bubbled over into public view. Questions over the firms’ competing franchise for a generic version of the blockbuster blood thinner Lovenox has led to allegations of misconduct at the FDA, the hiring of a prominent security firm to investigate those accusations and the announcement of a Congressional investigation into...
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Meet Zvi Goffer... The Octopussy
Arrested late last week, Zvi Goffer’s name has emerged as a lynchpin for insider information in the Galleon Group insider trading case. The track suit-wearing Goffer’s activities represent another crooked crew operating alongside and in concert with the Raj Rajaratnam-led hedge fund scheme. One of Goffer’s alleged key sources, Ropes and Gray attorney Arthur Cutillo, was also...
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Back in the Swing...
Returning from a bit of vacation and slowly getting back in the swing. Been dealing with a rather large to-do backlog so my apologies to the kind tipsters that have sent me things. I’ll be back in full swing by Monday. In the meantime, here’s a bit of what we got up to.