Krever was told the company ignored warnings that its method of heat-treating the product to protect against the HIV virus was not totally effective.
At least seven hemophiliacs, most of them children, contracted HIV from two lots of Armour blood products which had been cleared by Health Canada's bureau of biologics.
To: Great Dane
"BigM, do you remember when we said, the best government, is a terrific opposition, I
don't recall the last good opposition we had, it's been such a long time."
You are right.
We had the potential of having an effective, vigourous, populist conservative opposition.
Reform, in the face of conventional wisdom and derision and slander by the mainstream media, went from a party with one member in the House to Her Majesty's Official Opposition in just two general elections.
It also helped to organize the defeat of a referendum on a proposed constitutional amendment that would have put Canada into a straightjacket in perpetuity.
It did so in the face of the support of the referendum by every other political party, all the elites and special interest groups and the entire mainstream medis.
What killed Reform's effectiveness was sudden success.
I made an impromptue speach at London shortly after the first election when 52 Reformers were sent to Ottawa.
I was watching the beginnings of the jockeying for power and control, the elbowing for positions on executives and the campaigning for policies that were supposed to attract liberal votes.
I commandeered a microphone. I said that the biggest threat that faces a new party, especially a populist party, is sudden success. I reminded them of the abandonment of principles that took place and the resultant loss of credibility when the NDP party unexpectedly sent 40 members to Ottawa. My remarks were somewhat blunt in defence of staying the course and sticking to principles.
I was congratulated on my speech by people who seemet to be important in the party at the time, but the party continued to, in effect, turn its policy making over to the hired sherpas and the poll takers, because it thought that such was the way to power, with the result that the party that had such promise will fade away like all the prior promising populist mpvements that came out of Western Canada, to lie dormant until the need for reform again becomes sufficiently compelling.
I watched the same thing happen to Newt Gingrich's conservative populist movement in the US. I knew it would happen and said so, I just did not know the particulars of how it would happen.
Please understand that I am not saying this to pat myself on the back. After all, I lost.
I am beginning to see something similar happening in the Harris "Comon Sense Revolution" in Ontario.
I feel like Cassandra.
28 Posted on 11/15/1999 21:36:12 PST by Clive (chdove@home.com)
To: Steven Spielberg and AIDs Activists everywhere
- CLINTON &
THE KILLER BLOOD
-
- In the mid-1980s, as contaminated blood flowed from
- Arkansas inmates to other countries, then-Governor
- W.J. Clinton sat on his hands despite evidence of
- severe mismanagement in his prison system and its
- medical operations. The prison medical program was
- being run by Health Management Associates, which was
- headed by Leonard Dunn, a man who would brag to state
- police of his close ties to Clinton.
-
- Some of the killer blood ended up in Canada where it
- contributed to the deaths of an unknown number of
- blood and plasma recipients. An estimated 2,000
- Canadian recipients of blood and related products got
- the AIDS virus between 1980 and 1985. At least 60,000
- Canadians were infected with the hepatitis C virus
- between 1980 and 1990. Arkansas was one of the few
- sources of bad blood during this period.
-
- The Royal Canadian Mounted Police has a staff of 24
- working on the case. So far, investigators have
- interviewed about 600 people including in the U.S.,
- Germany and the Netherlands. According to the Ottawa
- Citizen, the team has amassed more than 30,000
- documents.
-
- Other Arkansas plasma was sent to Switzerland, Spain,
- Japan, and Italy. In a case with strong echoes of the
- Arkansas scandal, a former premier of France and two
- of his cabinet colleagues are currently on trial
- stemming from the wrongful handling of blood
- supplies. Some of the blood in the French controversy
- may have come from Arkansas.
-
- A 1992 Newsday report on the French scandal noted
- that three persons had been convicted for their role
- in distributing blood they knew was contaminated:
- "Throughout the 1980s and later, blood was taken from
- prison donors for use in blood banks despite a series
- of directives warning against such a practice.
- According to the report, donations from prisoners
- accounted for 25 percent of all the contaminated
- blood products in France. Blood from prisons was 69
- times more contaminated that that of the general
- population of donors."
-
- The Arkansas blood program was also grossly
- mishandled by the Food and Drug Administration. And
- the scandal provides yet another insight into how the
- American media misled the public about Clinton during
- the 1992 campaign. The media ignored a major Clinton
- scandal despite, for example, 80 articles about it in
- the Arkansas Democrat in just one four-month period
- of the mid-80s.
-
- Here's how Canada's Krever Commissioner report
- describes the beginnings of the problem:
-
- "During 19812, the number of AIDS cases in the
- United States reported to the Centers for Disease
- Control in Atlanta grew at an alarming rate. The vast
- majority of the reported cases were of homosexual men
- and intravenous drug abusers. During 1982, cases of
- AIDS transmitted through the use of blood and blood
- products began to be reported.
- The U.S. blood and plasma centers regularly collected
- from two groups of persons who were at high risk of
- contracting AIDS: homosexual men and prison inmates.
- Plasma was collected at centers, licensed by the Food
- and Drug Administration, in prisons in Arkansas,
- Florida, Louisiana, and Mississippi. By way of
- contrast, because of the high prevalence of hepatitis
- B in prisons, the Canadian Red Cross Society had
- stopped collecting donations from prison inmates in
- 1971."
-
- Suzi Parker, writing in the Arkansas Times, described
- the scene: "At the Cummins Unit of the Arkansas penal
- system during the 1980s, while President Clinton was
- still governor, inmates would regularly cross the
- prison hospital's threshold to give blood, lured by
- the prospect of receiving $7 a pint. The ritual was
- creepy to behold: Platoons of prisoners lying supine
- on rows of cots, waiting for the needle-wielding
- prisoner orderly to puncture a vein and watch the
- clear bags fill with blood. Administrators than sold
- the blood to brokers, who in turned shipped it to
- other sates and to Japan, Italy, Spain and Canada.
- Despite repeated warnings from the Food and Drug
- Administration, Arkansas kept its prison plasma
- program running until 1994 when it became the very
- last state to cease selling its prisoners' plasma.
-
- Mike Galster, a medical practitioner whose
- fictionalized account dramatically raised interest in
- the blood scandal, recalls that at the Pine Bluff
- unit's hospital they also took blood from prisoners.
- When he raised questions about the wisdom of bleeding
- sick people, he was told that even the ill had the
- right to sell their blood.
-
- Here is a time-line of this as yet too known Arkansas
- horror story:
-
- 1981
-
- The Arkansas Board of Corrections puts A.L. "Art"
- Lockhart in charge of the state's troubled prisons.
- An Arkansas Gazette front page feature on Lockhart
- begins by noting that he is "dogged by a public
- reputation as a man who runs roughshod over the
- constitutionally guaranteed rights and welfare of
- inmates. 'I don't why,' he said in an interview with
- the Gazette. 'I don't deserve it.'"
-
- The state's prisons are already a mess. Ten years
- earlier Lockhart had taken over the notorious Cummins
- facility which, according to a member of the
- corrections board, was "still controlled by inmate
- trusties with guns. The inmates called the shots. A
- lot of experts said there was no way to take the guns
- away from them without a riot. But Art did it without
- spilling any blood."
-
- But the Gazette also notes: "The prison system, and
- Cummins, in particular, still is in the transition
- from an institution controlled by the inmates to one
- controlled by guards. On many nights at Cummins,
- there are as few as half a dozen guards to watch
- about 1,650 inmates."
-
- Two years earlier, a prison monitor hired under a
- federal court order, released a report saying there
- was "clear and convincing evidence" that Lockhart and
- other employees beat and kicked inmates needlessly
- after an attempted escape from Cummins. Another
- prison mediator charged that the abuse of inmates had
- increased under Lockhart and that he had obstructed
- efforts at prison reform.
-
- Health Management Associates wins a contract to
- provide health services to state inmates, including
- running a blood plasma donor program.
-
- The Centers for Disease Control and World Health
- Organization establish that AIDS is a blood-borne
- disease. CDC recommends testing and sterilization of
- donor blood. The warning is widely ignored and, as a
- result, according to WHO, some one million people
- become infected. Twenty-two countries will eventually
- have to pay compensation as a result.
-
- FDA asks US companies not to buy prison plasma since,
- due to unsafe sexual and drug practices by many
- inmates, the blood has a high risk of carrying the
- AIDS virus.
-
- JUNE 1983
-
- HMA tells FDA that 38 units of plasma from four
- inmates of the Grady prison should not have been
- collected because the prisoners had once tested
- positive for hepatitis B despite a test at the time
- of collection being negative. HMA sees the hazard as
- slight and thinks there is no need to recall the
- plasma. The Canadian Krever Commission will later
- report that "by 1983, however, an association had
- been identified between hepatitis B and AIDS; most
- persons with AIDS had also been infected with
- hepatitis B. There was a greater than average risk
- that the 38 units of plasma from the four inmates
- could transmit AIDS. Four of the units ended up in
- Canada, the others were sold to corporations in
- Switzerland, Spain, Japan, and Italy."
-
- AUGUST 1983
-
- HMA decides to withdraw the 38 units from circulation
- and FDA concurs. This is the first time that
- Connaught, the Canadian blood firm, has heard of any
- problems. The shipping papers had only shown that the
- blood came from "ADC Plasma Center, Grady, Arkansas."
-
- By this time, however, the blood is already in
- circulation and only 417 of 2409 vials are retrieved.
-
- The same month HMA tells the FDA of a fifth inmate
- with similar problems. He had given 34 units in less
- than a year.
-
- SEPTEMBER 1983
-
- Connaught reviews its approvals for receipt of plasma
- from US centers and finds that twelve have never been
- properly approved. One is the prison center in Grady,
- Arkansas. Other questionable blood has come from four
- prisons in Louisiana. Canadian Red Cross nullifies
- its contract for the blood the same day it finds this
- out.
-
- FEBRUARY 1984
-
- FDA suspends plasma production at the Grady facility
- where an average of 550-600 inmates have been giving
- blood since 1967. UPI regional wire reports that FDA
- finds overbleeding of inmate donors, disqualified
- donors, lack of documentation of testing, and
- inadequate storage. It also notes inaccurate and
- incomplete storage, instances of intentional and
- willful disregard for proposed standards, alteration
- of records and files to conceal violations, as well
- as inadequate training and ineffective supervision of
- the plasma center staff. Within months, however, HMA
- successfully applies for a new license after blaming
- the problems on a corrupt clerk.
-
- 1985
-
- A UPI story recounts how the largest inmate donor
- program in the country -- in the Louisiana state
- prison -- is coming under increased federal scrutiny
- because of what is dubbed the "AIDS scare." Says the
- state's secretary of corrections: "We have no
- intention of shutting it down. It would have the same
- impact as a major industry shutting down in a small
- town: economic chaos." The president of a plasma
- company is quoted as saying, "There is no scientific
- evidence that prisoner plasma is worse than street
- plasma." The programs had, in fact, been shut down
- for six months but were reinstated after the prison
- discovered foreign markets to replace a dwindling US
- demand. Says the plasma company president, "I'd say
- 70 to 80 percent is going overseas. There's a good
- market for it over there, and they don't ask where it
- came from."
-
- FDA finally requires testing of donor blood. Tainted
- blood distribution will continue inside the US until
- 1986. Thereafter, contaminated blood stocks will
- still be shipped from US companies to other
- countries.
-
- Prosecuting attorney Wayne Matthews, after a two
- month state police probe, finds no evidence of drug
- trafficking in the Arkansas prison system. The
- allegation is that HMA employees are diverting drugs
- from the department's pharmacy and selling them to
- inmates, and that prisoners who 'knew too much' about
- drug trafficking were killed or allowed to die.
- "There's just absolutely no evidence whatsoever,"
- says Matthews.
-
- JANUARY 1986
-
- The Corrections board agrees to have HMA's contract
- reviewed by outside parties. A media account notes
- that "HMA has been frequently in the news lately
- because of allegations by inmates of improper medical
- treatment." Among the charges: HMA hired a
- Mississippi doctor who was refused a permanent
- license in Arkansas. The doctor had lost his
- Mississippi license for "habitual personal use of
- narcotic drugs."
-
- The Arkansas Democrat Gazette reports: "Governor Bill
- Clinton recently asked the Department to review
- health care services provided by HMA after
- allegations were raised that several inmates died
- because of a lack of medical care and that the leg of
- at least one inmate was amputated as a result of
- improper care. Department Director A. L. (Art)
- Lockhart, who earlier said HMA was doing a
- 'satisfactory' job, said Thursday a review of HMA
- could reveal some problems. ~~~ During the discussion
- of HMA and the allegations that have been made
- against it, [Corrections] Board member Don Smith
of
- Pine Bluff excused himself because his law firm
- represents HMA."
-
- MARCH 1986
-
- Clinton tells a radio audience that there is no
- solution to problems with running a prison, only the
- process of dealing with the problems as they arise.
- He also says that "there is no evidence of systematic
- abuse for which the administration is responsible
- that I can see. If I did, I'd try to do something
- about it."
-
- State Representative Bobby Glover charges that
- inmates are forced to participate in homosexual
- activities, that there have been gang rapes, that
- marijuana is openly smoked and that "home brew" is
- being sold for $7 to $10 a gallon. He disputes a
- recent prison department report that claimed only 6
- per cent of the inmate population was participating
- in illicit drug use. Glover says he also is looking
- into reports of gambling, the theft and personal use
- of department property by employees, bid rigging,
- three questionable deaths, the lack of medical
- services, the physical abuse of inmates by guards and
- other prison officials, and bribes to obtain work
- release assignments or favorable classification.
-
- Sandra Kurjiaka, director of the American Civil
- Liberties Union in Arkansas, says that there is a
- "real slavery problem" in the state correction
- department and that changes need to be made. Kurjiaka
- says an attitude exists that allows inmates to be
- raped and brutalized and that it exists with the
- consent of the governor, the correction board and the
- public.
-
- APRIL 86
-
- Clinton tells State Police chief Tommy Goodwin to
- begin a full scale investigation into reports of
- criminal conduct within the prison system. Says he
- finds them "very disturbing." Clinton makes his
- announcement after meeting for an hour with Goodwin
- and Rep. Glover. "Rep. Glover has communicated to me
- and Col. Goodwin some very serious allegations."
- Clinton says the state police "has resources" to
- investigate and Goodwin promises to assign at least
- eight investigators.
-
- MAY 1986
-
- Stories circulate about an alleged $25,000 bribe
- being paid to a prison board official to obtain a new
- contract for HMA. One witness tells the state police
- that the HMA board was angry about the extortion.
- This is all denied in a series of state police
- interviews with HMA and prison officials. It is
- claimed that the story arose from the attorney
- Richard Mays being hired for that same amount to
- serve for two years as an ombudsman for HMA. No
- contract or other written evidence of this agreement
- is ever produced.
-
- What did Mays do in this job? According to HMA
- medical director Francis Henderson in a state police
- interview, "Mr Mays has thus far performed his duties
- in a very capable manner. He has met with us on three
- or four occasions and has mediated in some problem
- areas we have had. He has met with inmates and worked
- out some difficulties they had in the form of
- grievances with medical treatment services."
-
- Henderson also describes his efforts to obtain a
- buyer for the plasma: "Historically this [was]
the
- worst possible time to do it. I called all over the
- world and finally got one group in Canada that would
- take the contract."
-
- Corrections board chair Woodson Walker is also
- interviewed by state police. According to the
- interview notes, he states that "he had had direct
- contacts with Governor Clinton throughout the
- selection process and that the Governor was deeply
- concerned with HMA's past performance and the
- deficiencies found by both the State Health
- Department and the Arkansas State Police Investigator
- of [sic] late 1984." Asked by Clinton for his
- recommendation, Walker states that after "taking
- everything into prospective [sic] he advised the
- Governor that he had decided to go with HMA ~~~ but
- only if a safeguard in the form of an ombudsman was
- included. The ombudsman was completely my idea and
- Governor Clinton advised me that he definitely
- approved. I was asked to make several suggestions as
- to who this ombudsman might be and among others
- recommended Judge Richard Mays and Judge David Hale,
- both of Little Rock. Hale was white and Mays was
- black but races was not a major consideration in
- these recommendations. As it turned out, Judge Hale
- declined. . . "
-
- Hale would later become famous in the Whitewater
- scandal. Mays would also crop up again several times
- in the Clinton saga. A long-time Clinton supporter,
- he would gain posts both on the state supreme court
- and on the prison board. More curiously, he would
- show up as David Hale's attorney when the FBI got a
- subpoena to raid Hale's files for Whitewater
- documents -- issued on July 20, 1993, the day Vincent
- Foster died. [For yet another Mays link to Clinton,
- jump to 1994]
-
- From state police notes of an interview with former
- Cummins guard Jackie Cummings: "Jackie Cummings
- further stated that he had been dismissed from his
- job at the Cummins Unit because he had not been a
- 'team player.' When asked to provide additional
- information that would help investigators look into a
- situation such as his, Cummings stated that he would
- say no further, but that he only wants to 'get my job
- back.' Cummings advised both investigators that he
- had gone to the Office of Governor Bill Clinton and
- had met with him personally and was told by Clinton
- that he could do nothing about the situation at the
- Cummins Unit because it would cause him political
- harm."
-
- Leonard Dunn, president of HMA, is interviewed by
- state police. Investigator S. R. Probasco notes that
- Dunn explained that he "was the financial portion of
- the corporation as well as the political arm. Dunn
- advised that he had been a former member of the State
- Claims commission under Governor Pryor and that he
- was close to Governor Clinton as well as the majority
- of state politicians presently in office. Mr. Dunn
- explained that he was very fond of politics and that
- he was very active.
-
- "Dunn stated to these investigators that the entire
- matter of trying to obtain a contact for HMA was
- considered to him to be part of negotiation and not
- in any form of pressure by the State Corrections
- Board or the Governor's Office. When asked
- specifically about contacts from the Governor's
- Office, Mr. Dunn stated that he did have
- conversations with both Governor Clinton and Mrs.
- Betsey Wright to assure them that HMA wanted to what
- was right. ~~~ Dunn stated that he was advised that
- the Governor's office was very concerned about
- problems HMA was having but was told to compete like
- anyone else if they wanted the penitentiary
- contract."
-
- Incidentally, Dunn is chair of a holding company that
- will later purchase two branches of Jim McDougal's
- failed Madison Guaranty Savings and Loan Association.
- He will also be named to the Arkansas Industrial
- Development Commission.
-
- JUNE 27, 1986
-
- The Institute for Law and Policy Planning, asked by
- the corrections board in March to study allegations
- of malfeasance in the prison system, presents its
- report to Governor Clinton and the board. The report
- states that that HMA has "consistently failed to
- provide the management system and medical services
- specifically called for in the contract." It also
- states that HMA and ADC "have only recently developed
- protocol and procedures for handling AIDS cases, and
- are currently developing a refined approach to AIDS
- screening and testing." Among numerous deficiencies,
- ILLP finds HMA has failed to provide the required
- number of doctor hours, the head of HMA is too
- overcommitted to give proper medical supervision, the
- enforcement of the medical contract has been
- inadequate, the program "fails to meet many
- significant professional standards," HMA has not
- followed state requirements, it has used inmates in
- prohibited medical jobs, and its record-keeping has
- been lacking."
-
- JULY 30 1986
-
- HMA is cleared of wrong-dong by the State Police.
- Prison officials are charged with just two
- misdemeanors and one felony.
-
- JULY 31, 1986
-
- The corrections board finds HMA in violation of its
- two year contract and placed on 90-day probation. The
- contract will eventually be taken over by Pine Bluffs
- Biologicals.
-
- AUGUST 1986
-
- Clinton decides not to ask AL "Art" Lockhart --
- director of the state prison system -- to resign. He
- also denies being directly involved in the renewal of
- the contract for HMA. He says he didn't talk with
- Dunn until after the decision was made to give HMA
- the contract again. All he told Dunn, Clinton claims,
- is that HMA should be willing to accept an outside
- monitor and should work to improve patient care.
-
- Rep. Glover, who has asked for Lockhart's
- resignation, says he has shown "a complete lack of
- administrative abilities." Clinton refuses to respond
- to Glover saying he should have taken the matter up
- with the Board of Corrections. He said he had "bent
- over backwards to try accommodate" Glover and accuses
- him of refusing to accept the state police
- investigation because "he had decided how it was
- suppose to come out before it was done."
-
- 1987
-
- The last year improperly treated blood and plasma is
- distributed in Canada. The government provides
- compensation for harmed patients.
-
- 1989
-
- The Committee of Ten Thousand -- named for the
- estimated 10,000 Americans infected with HIV by the
- blood industry -- is formed. Writing in POZ seven
- years later, COTT's president Corey Dubin says, "For
- years the manufacturers of blood products and the
- regulators at the FDA persuaded the hemophilia
- community as well as the general public that their
- infections were a 'tragic yet unavoidable mistake.'
- We now know that this is absolutely not the case and
- that doing business as usual from 1982 to 1985
- consigned thousands of people with hemophilia to the
- ravages of AIDS. ~~~ Internal drug company memos
- demonstrate that officials understood the impact that
- blood tainted by this pathogen could have on people
- with hemophilia as early as mid-1982, but they failed
- to warn either our doctors or us. The industry was
- also targeting for plasma collection groups with a
- high incidence of hepatitis B -- gay men and
- prisoners -- that the CDC had by then identified as
- likely to have AIDS."
-
- MAY 1993
-
- Two separate tainted blood probes -- one by a
- California investigator and another by the Canadian
- government -- lead to the door of the Arkansas
- governor's office, now occupied by Jim Guy Tucker.
- Both are informed that all the governor's papers were
- removed when he left office and that they should
- contact the White House legal counsel's office. What
- happens next is not known but presumably they make
- contact with Vince Foster, the man in the legal
- counsel's office who knew Arkansas and who had been
- involved in the prison system and who may, at one
- point, have represented HMA.
-
- JULY 1993
-
- Vince Foster dies under mysterious circumstances.
-
- A day or two after Foster's death, the New York Post
- will report much later, someone calls a little-known
- phone number at the White House counsel's office
- where Mr. Foster worked. "The man said he had some
- information that might be important," writes
- columnist Maggie Gallagher, who did not name her
- source or identify the official who took the call.
- "Something had upset Vince Foster greatly just days
- before he died. Something about 'tainted blood' that
- both Vince Foster and President Clinton knew about,
- this man said."
-
- 1994
-
- Richard Mays, the "ombudsman" in the 1980s prison
- health scandal, crops up again, as described in a
- report from the House Government Reform and Oversight
- Committee:
-
- "Charlie Trie was first solicited to contribute to
- the DNC in connection with the June 22, 1994,
- Presidential Gala in Washington, D.C. Trie was
- solicited to give $100,000 to the DNC, even though he
- had never made any significant political
- contributions previously. No one at the DNC
- demonstrated any concern about taking $100,000 from
- an obscure Arkansas restaurateur with little apparent
- wealth. Trie was rewarded with an immediate entree
- into the world of Washington insiders and
- presidential intimates, and the DNC was rewarded with
- badly-needed campaign cash.
-
- "Trie was solicited to make his first contributions
- to the DNC by Richard Mays, a close friend of the
- President from Arkansas. Mays had been appointed to
- the Arkansas bench by Governor Clinton, and was also
- a longtime major DNC donor and fundraiser. Mays
- claims that he knew Trie from patronizing his
- restaurant in Little Rock. Mays claimed not to recall
- the exact circumstances of his solicitation of Trie,
- but did state that he 'had the distinct impression
- that [Trie] was in a position to contribute, and
- wanted to make a contribution.' Mays says he based
- his conclusion that Trie was in a 'position to
- contribute' to the DNC on the fact that Trie was
- traveling between Little Rock and Washington, D.C.:
-
- "Question: When you say "in a position to
- contribute," do you mean he had sufficient money to
- contribute?
-
- "Mays: I felt he did.
-
- "Question: And how did you get that impression?
-
- "Mays: I donít know how I got that impression, but
- frequently, he seemed like he was traveling
- extensively, you know, I knew he owned that Chinese
- restaurant down there, and he apparently had engaged
- in some business, other business interests. I really
- didnít have a specific judgment that, in fact, he
- could, but I certainly thought it was worth talking
- to him about it.
-
- ***
-
- "Question: Would you ever see him anywhere other than
- D.C. or Little Rock?
- "Mays: I donít recall that I have. I mean, I am
not
- saying I havenít, but I donít recall."
-
- "Mays asked Trie what he could contribute, and Trie
- told him $100,000. Mays claims that he was not
- surprised by Trieís offer of $100,000, even though
- this was the largest contribution he had ever
- solicited. Trieís $100,000 contribution was used
for
- the DNCís Health Care Campaign, which was a public
- campaign to promote the Presidentís health care
- legislative proposal.
-
- "At this point, Mays claimed he still had no concern
- that a political novice with little apparent wealth
- had pledged $100,000 to the DNC. Rather than
- conducting any background research of Trie, or
- looking into the source of Trieís funds, he
- introduced Trie to Terry McAuliffe, then the Finance
- Chairman of the DNC. Mays set up a breakfast meeting
- between McAuliffe and Trie. At this meeting, Trie
- confirmed that he would make a $100,000 contribution
- to the DNC, and asked only that he be prominently
- seated at the June 22 gala. When asked if he ever had
- a concern about the source of Trieís
contributions,
- Mays responded, 'Why would I have some concern?'"
-
- 1994
-
- Arkansas finally stops selling prisoner's plasma.
-
- 1995
-
- Four blood company officials are convicted in Germany
- of distributing HIV tainted blood and derivatives.
- The government admits a cover-up. The former owner of
- a plasma testing lab goes on trial for murder in the
- deaths of three people treated with AIDS-tainted
- blood products.
-
- 1996
-
- Japan, which has never discarded its contaminated
- blood and plasma, criminally charges a pharmaceutical
- company and a government adviser for the distribution
- of tainted blood matter.
-
- 1999
-
- "This I know. Without the governor's support and
- protection, this disease-ridden system would have
- been shut down by 1922" -- Mike Galster to Suzi
- Parker
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