Insider Trading By Ex-FDA Official Puts Spotlight On Agency Practices
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet & The Rose Sheet
Executive Summary
After Office of Generic Drugs Deputy Director Gordon Johnston left FDA, he joined GPhA and 'tricked' a former colleague into sharing info on generic Lovenox on behalf of a hedge fund he was secretly working for, SEC says.
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