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Charles Grassley, together with [[Rush Holt]] called for hearings into the [[DOJ]] and [[FBI]]'s handling of the [[2001 anthrax attacks]] investigation.<ref>[http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/middleeast/la-na-anthrax8-2008aug08,0,2258246.story Anthrax investigation should be investigated, congressmen say] Associated Press 8 August 2008</ref> | Charles Grassley, together with [[Rush Holt]] called for hearings into the [[DOJ]] and [[FBI]]'s handling of the [[2001 anthrax attacks]] investigation.<ref>[http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/middleeast/la-na-anthrax8-2008aug08,0,2258246.story Anthrax investigation should be investigated, congressmen say] Associated Press 8 August 2008</ref> | ||
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| + | [[WhoWhatWhy]] report that Grassley wrote to [[FBI Chief]] [[James Comey]] that “Continued reluctance on the part of the FBI to share information with local law enforcement... would be extremely troubling.”<ref>https://whowhatwhy.org/2013/10/25/grassley-on-boston-bombing/</ref> | ||
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Latest revision as of 14:53, 29 July 2020
A "powerful" powerful US senator with "a history of investigating misconduct in the biomedical sciences".[1]
Career
Grassley has proposed a federal law, the Physician Payments Sunshine Act, which would require drug and device companies to register on a public website virtually all payments made to physicians.[2]
Grassley wrote in a February 2014 letter to the Office of Research Integrity about the fraud of Dong-Pyou Han, who was dismissed after admitted fabricating and falsifying data in HIV vaccine trials that "this seems like a very light penalty for a doctor who purposely tampered with a research trial and directly caused millions of taxpayer dollars to be wasted on fraudulent studies". Nature writes that his intervention was instrumental in the sentence being upped to 57 months in jail and a US$7.2 million file, with 3 years of supervised release after he leaves prison.[1]
2001 anthrax attacks
Charles Grassley, together with Rush Holt called for hearings into the DOJ and FBI's handling of the 2001 anthrax attacks investigation.[3]
2013 Boston Marathon bombings
- Full article: Boston Marathon bombings
- Full article: Boston Marathon bombings
WhoWhatWhy report that Grassley wrote to FBI Chief James Comey that “Continued reluctance on the part of the FBI to share information with local law enforcement... would be extremely troubling.”[4]
Refereces
- ↑ a b http://www.nature.com/news/us-vaccine-researcher-sentenced-to-prison-for-fraud-1.17660
- ↑ http://www.nature.com/news/2009/090916/full/461330a.html
- ↑ Anthrax investigation should be investigated, congressmen say Associated Press 8 August 2008
- ↑ https://whowhatwhy.org/2013/10/25/grassley-on-boston-bombing/
