<p> …In 2002, the drug maker, Purdue Pharma of Stamford, Conn., hired Mr. Giuliani and his consulting firm, Giuliani Partners, to help stem the controversy about OxyContin . </p>
<p> …Despite these efforts, Purdue suffered a crushing defeat… when the company and three top executives pleaded guilty to criminal charges .</p>
<p>Clinton–pusher of drugged up nasty chicken.</p>
<p>Tyson Foods, based in Bill Clinton’s home state of Arkansas, enjoyed intimate ties to the Clinton Administration during the 1990’s. Some would say too intimate. It was Tyson General Counsel, James Blair, who set up a sweetheart deal to get Hillary Clinton an education in sophisticated and highly risky cattle futures, turning her $1,000 investment into a quick $100,000 windfall. Soon after helping Hillary, Tyson Foods found a friend in the new Clinton Secretary of Agriculture, Mike Espy. A US Judge found that Tyson had arranged airplane rides, professional football tickets and other gifts to Espy. Tyson agreed to pay a $6 million fine for ‘attempting’ to bribe a Federal official.</p>
<p>tommybill, do you ever let up? I’m a liberal, a card-carrying member of the ACLU and Americans United for the Separation of Church and State who finds most of this crop of Republican presidential candidates shudder-inducing at best, and I find your repetitive muckraking posts tiresome and obnoxious. At least discuss their actual policies and positions…it’s not like there’s nothing to complain about there. Even when you have actual useful content in your posts, the thread titles are inflammatory and off-putting, hardly conducive to real discussion.</p>
<p>By the way folks I consider being called a muckraker a complement I am not worthy of. In my family the literary muckrakers you are referring to (as opposed to a true muckraker) are held in such high esteem that my grandparents named my mother after Ida Turnbull.</p>
<p>You may want to find a new pejorative to call me.</p>