Sunday, July 29, 2007

Giuliani And Partners Profit From Being Rapacious Scum

Jeebus do they love to milk those cash cows. Rudy's been sucking at the 9/11 tit for all it's worth and his law firm Bracewell & Giuliani LLP has been busy selling out the american people by representing a foreign firm that will build a monstrous highway through the heart of the country.
Now it seems they've been padding their bank accounts by selling out people who became unwitting addicts:

"Presidential candidates typically wait until they’re elected before they begin selling out American citizens.
Not Rudolph Giuliani.
The man considered the ‘front-runner’ in the GOP presidential race has engineered sinister alliances with multinational construction corporations and profited financially from a drug cover-up that ultimately proved deadly for some Americans.
This past May, the makers of the drug
Oxycontin pleaded guilty to claiming to doctors that the drug was less addictive than other pain medications.
Rudolph Giuliani and his consulting company, Giuliani Partners, spent the last five years playing a key role negotiating with federal prosecutors on behalf of Purdue Pharma LP, the pharmaceutical company that made the drug.
The punishment for the corporate pushers who marketed this drug knowing it produced a heroin-like high and a commensurate addiction rate? On July 20, it was announced after a 4 hour hearing there would be no prison sentences; instead, a $634 million fine- chump change in big pharma world. The no-prison settlement was plotted by the man who wants to be your next president.
Since Rudy’s been auditioning for the job of leader of the free world, hardly a campaign speech goes by without him boasting of how he rid New York City of thugs and dangerous drug dealers while he was mayor. The next time you hear that well-worn spiel keep in mind the manufactured political maverick personally brokered a sweet deal for a large drug company’s execs who should clearly have done hard time. Giuliani made sure big pharma higher-ups each got a stay-out-of-jail card even though they knowingly marketed a highly-addictive pain medication which killed hundreds and hopelessly addicted untold thousands. It has since been referred to as a national addiction “epidemic.”

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