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USA Today reports that another Bush Administration Official is a criminal...
FDA chief Lester Crawford will plead guilty for failing to disclose a financial interest in companies his agency regulated, his lawyer said Monday...Crawford "is going to plead guilty to two misdemeanors tomorrow afternoon and he is going to admit his financial disclosures had errors and omissions, mostly with his wife's continued ownership of stocks," said Crawford's lawyer, Barbara Van Gelder.
"At the end of the day, he owned these stocks, and he will admit he owned them while he was at the FDA and he will take responsibility for that," Van Gelder said.
The Justice Department's fraud and public corruption section filed an information in the case Monday in U.S. District Court in Washington.
Anyone who thought that Nancy Pelosi's charge, that the Republican Party is immersed in a "culture of corruption", was too harsh, owes her an apology. |
