Powerful Dems orchestrated campaign at FDA to provide Biogen drug to a dying, high-profile fundraiser
Back in 2008, Dallas trial lawyer and high-profile Democratic Party fundraiser Fred Baron was dying of multiple myeloma. Desperate to gain access to Biogen’s Tysabri, an MS drug then being tested for myeloma in early-stage studies, his wife Lisa Blue Baron reached out to the company but ran directly into a brick wall of resistance.
“[Biogen] won’t approve for fred because he is too sick and if it fails him, it could skew the outcome of the trials(this told to me by his wife),” noted a family friend in the error-ridden post included in the batch of hacked emails from John Podesta — the chairman of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign — dumped by WikiLeaks on Saturday.
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