Tommy Thompson joins drug company as advisor
Laptop Battery By WTN News • 01/09/06 Tommy Tompson, formerly a Wisconsin governor and then secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, has accepted an advisory position with Alfacell Corporation.
Alfacell develops cancer theraputics and is moving closer to filing a new drug application with the federal Food and Drug Administration for its lead drug candidate. The company's headquarters are in Bloomfield, New Jersy, but it has a local presence.
"I first became familiar with Alfacell as governor of wisconsin, where the company manufactures its products," Thompson said in a written statement.
Since his cabinet position in presdient George W. Bush's first term, Thompson has joined the boards of several companies, including C.R. Bard, also in New Jersy, and Picis, in Massachusetts.
He said last July that he would get a computer-chip implant that would provide access to his medical records, though national news reporters found he still hadn't several months later.
According to the indictment, Jones would steal various IBM and Penguin computer servers from Verisign's warehouse in Virginia and sell them to Johnson. Johnson would then sell the servers to several individuals, who would sometimes place them for sale on eBay. As a result of this scheme, the indictment alleges that Jones and Johnson caused Verisign to lose more than $120, 000 worth of computer equipment. In the indictment, Jones and Johnson are charged in three counts with causing the interstate transportation of stolen property, namely IBM 330 and 335 servers, in violation of 18 U.S.C.
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