In Brief: Former Bard execs sentencing
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
Former Bard execs sentencing: Judge Joseph Tauro, U.S. District Court, Boston, schedules Aug. 8 sentencing of three ex-Bard executives convicted in August 1995 of conspiring to defraud FDA ("The Gray Sheet" Aug. 28, 1995, p. 2). The former execs convicted are: Bard group exec VP David Prigmore; John Cvinar, former President of Bard's USCI angioplasty catheter division; and Lee Leichter, former director of regulatory affairs and quality assurance for USCI. Former Bard CEO, George Maloney, and Kenneth Thurston, former director of regulatory affairs for USCI, were acquitted. Charges facing Janice Piasecki, a former supervisor in the regulatory affairs department, were dropped. The three defendants found guilty each face up to five years imprisonment and a fine of $250,000...