Ar­rest re­port, court docs out­line mul­ti­ple spouse abuse al­le­ga­tions against Seagen founder Clay Sie­gall

New in­for­ma­tion has emerged de­tail­ing the events that led to the April 23 ar­rest of Seagen CEO Clay Sie­gall and a May 2 tem­po­rary re­strain­ing or­der against him, ac­cord­ing to doc­u­ments ob­tained by End­points News.

Around 3 a.m. lo­cal time on April 23, Sie­gall’s wife and a wit­ness called po­lice af­ter he al­leged­ly pushed her to the ground, and he was brought to jail hours lat­er on a charge of fourth de­gree do­mes­tic vi­o­lence gross mis­de­meanor, per po­lice records from that morn­ing. The records, as well as a re­strain­ing or­der and jail call logs, lay out the al­le­ga­tions against one of the high­est-pro­file CEOs in biotech, who found­ed Seagen in the late 1990s and has built it in­to a $22 bil­lion drug de­vel­op­er that led the ADC R&D field. Sie­gall was al­so one of the most rich­ly com­pen­sat­ed phar­ma ex­ec­u­tives in 2021, pulling in $18.1 mil­lion.

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