NIH Official Takes Fifth on Tissue Sharing

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/14/AR2006061402153.html
A senior National Institutes of Health researcher yesterday invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination and refused to answer a congressional subcommittee's questions about his alleged use of federally owned tissue samples for personal gain.

"I respectfully decline to answer this question, and any other questions, based on my constitutional rights," said Trey Sunderland, an Alzheimer's disease researcher, in response to the first query posed by the chairman of the House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on oversight and investigations.

At issue is an arrangement through which Sunderland shared thousands of vials of spinal fluid and plasma with drug giant Pfizer Inc., around the time he received hundreds of thousands of dollars in undisclosed fees from the company.

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reports of corruption we get every single day from these folks.

That's amazingly bad. He needs to get locked up on that one.