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Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Los Angeles Times, CA -
Michael J. Ellis, the founder and former president of dietary supplement maker Metabolife International Inc., was sentenced to six months in prison and ordered to pay a $20,000 fine for lying to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. ... -
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
San Diego Union Tribune, United States -
By Mike Freeman The former chief executive of dietary supplement maker Metabolife International was sentenced to six months in federal prison yesterday for lying to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration regarding an ephedra-based weight-loss product. ... -
May 19, 2008
Washington Post, United States -
Sen. John McCain's campaign instituted a policy last week that prohibits staff members from lobbying and restricts the lobbying activities of others connected to the campaign. Sen. Barack Obama has long had an anti-lobbying policy. A comparison of the ... -
May 19, 2008
Houston Chronicle, United States -
By BENNETT ROTH BY THE NUMBERS WASHINGTON — In the years since George W. Bush moved into the White House, former Texas Congressman Tom Loeffler has parlayed top-drawer political ties into a lucrative lobbying practice that has reaped more than $32 million in business. ... -
May 20, 2008
Detroit Free Press, United States -
If John McCain is going to have a chance in November, he’ll have to convince voters that he’sa reformer and not just a continuation of the corporate-run Bush administration. So the Sunday resignation of McCain?s finance honcho, Tom Loeffler, was a major hit to ... -
May 20, 2008
MSNBC -
It's so clear the McCain campaign -- or maybe it's even McCain himself -- hates the idea of ceding the reform issue to Obama, hence the strict lobbyist ban. But has McCain painted himself in a corner? Will Charlie Black and Rick Davis, in particular, find themselves constantly ... -
May 20, 2008
NPR -
While the war between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton has dragged on, John McCain has stood alone on the Republican side of the field. He has had an unparalleled opportunity to define his candidacy, assemble a fall campaign team, shore up his support ... -
May 20, 2008
New York Times, United States -
By BARRY MEIER and KATE ZERNIKE Sorting out the lobbying entanglements of his campaign advisers is proving to be a messy business for Senator John McCain. ... -
May 20, 2008
USA Today -
By Matt Kelley, USA TODAY This story is part of USA TODAY's series, "The Price of Power," which tracks the political and business relationships between public officials and donors. WASHINGTON — John McCain's top foreign policy adviser lobbied the Arizona senator's ... -
May 21, 2008
Kansas City Star, MO -
Some people seem confused about the purpose of my posts concerning books authored by certain Presidential candidates, so first let's clear up that little matter. I'm not interested in Star book editor John Mark Eberhart 's job, nor ...
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Wednesday, May 21, 2008
ABC News -
ABC News' Sunlen Miller Reports: Touching down in the Sunshine State for the first time since September, Democratic frontrunner Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., took only seven minutes to remind Florida voters Wednesday that as of Tuesday's contests he has captured the majority ... -
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
MSNBC -
TAMPA, FL -- While once again claiming to be on the threshold of the Democratic nomination, Obama picked what could be considered his first fight of the general election. “ John McCain has agreed with me on some of the steps we need ... -
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
The Associated Press -
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Democrat Barack Obama had harsh words for Republican John McCain on Wednesday, saying McCain once wanted far tougher lobbying reforms than those he has imposed on his own presidential campaign. Democrats are trying to make McCain seem less ... -
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Washington Post, United States -
By Michael D. Shear and Jeffrey H. Birnbaum Longtime uber-lobbyist Charles R. Black Jr. is John McCain's man in Washington, a political maestro who is hoping to guide his friend, the senator from Arizona, to the presidency this November. ... -
Thursday, May 22, 2008
Boston Globe, United States -
As John McCain hammers Barack Obama daily on his willingness to talk to leaders of objectionable regimes, Obama is hitting back on McCain and lobbyists in the upper reaches of his campaign. "We need a president who sees the government not as a tool ... -
Apr 25, 2008
The Courier News, IL -
Herbal Science International Inc. is recalling 12 dietary supplements for containing either ephedra, aristolochic acid or human placenta. All the supplements are packaged in white bottles of 100 capsules each. The following products are recalled ... -
May 18, 2008
GoErie.com, PA -
We expect their bodies to be straight-from-the-womb pure - free of steroids, human growth hormone, ephedra, greenies or anything else that might give them an edge. Baseball recently conducted a two-year witch hunt to ferret out anyone who might have ingested or ... -
May 13, 2008
Newswise (press release) -
Newswise — The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has developed Standard Reference Materials (SRMs) for bitter orange, long used in folk medicine and now increasingly used in herbal weight-loss products. Researchers can use the new materials to develop and test ... -
May 14, 2008
NutraIngredients-usa.com, France -
By Shane Starling A new standard has been published for the weight loss herb bitter orange that will allow interested parties to "develop and test ... -
May 18, 2008
Overlawyered, NY -
* A panel of the Fourth Circuit threw out (PDF) the $2 million punitive damage award against Duke University under federal sex discrimination law to Heather Sue Mercer, “who was allowed a walk-on spot as a kicker on the school’s football team but [was] treated ...
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