14. EX-FDA COMMISSIONER TURNED LOBBYIST PLEADS GUILTY
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/17/AR2006101700573.html
 The former commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration
 (FDA), Lester Crawford, has pleaded guilty to breaching conflict of
 interest rules. Crawford and his wife held between $188,000 and
 $336,000 in shares in four companies that he was required to have
 sold, under FDA rules. Two of the companies he held stock in were
 the food companies Sysco and PepsiCo. Crawford had shares in these
 companies at a time that he was chair of the FDA's Obesity Working
 Group, which was reviewing calorie-content labelling standards for
 soft drinks. Crawford currently works as Senior Counsel at the
 Washington D.C. lobbying firm Policy Directions Inc.. In 2005,
 Policy Directions clients included Kraft Foods, the Pharmaceutical
 Research and Manufacturers of America, Nestle, Merck and the
 American Feed Industry Association.
SOURCE: Washington Post, October 17, 2006
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