"What's the purpose of investigation? It is to uncover the truth. I doubt that someone's arrest can contribute to uncovering the truth."
Alexey Sklyarenko, a lawyer representing Russian anti-doping whistleblower Grigory Rodchenkov, saying that said the call for Mr. Rodchenkov’s arrest by Russia was a means of exerting “psychological pressure” on his client. Click here for more.
-- "[T]he examples of Manning and Kaepernick . . . are a consequence of the normalization of corruption, which has resulted in some of America’s most powerful institutions treating the truth as an inconvenience or, worse, an enemy to defeat."
Washington Post columnist Katrina vanden Heuvel in her column on Speaking Truth to Power. Read more.
-- "Today's settlement shows that the government will continue to hold accountable drug companies that violate laws designed to protect the health and safety of patients."
-Acting Assistant Attorney General Chad A. Readler commenting on Aegerion's guilty plea.
-- "If your securities trade on our exchanges and you use our banks to move ill-gotten money, then you have to abide by our country’s laws. Telia and Coscom refused to do so, and they have been held accountable."
Acting U.S. Attorney Joon H. Kim of the Southern District of New York, commenting on the $965 million settlement involving Telia Company AB and its Uzbek subsidiary Coscom LLC for Foreign Corrupt...
-- “The importation of illegally harvested wood and timber products harms law-abiding American companies and workers and threatens forest resources around the world.”
Acting Assistant Attorney General Jeffrey H. Wood commenting on Young Living Essential Oils pleading guilty to federal misdemeanor charges.
-- "I could see other people, faced with a similar situation, saying, 'I can't live like this, I'm going to need to go back to painkillers,' "
Amanda Jantzi, a member of Anthem insurance, commenting on what many patients think when non-opioid drugs are no longer covered by insurance and they need to go back to opioid painkillers.
-- “Rooting out waste, fraud, and abuse is at the heart of any OIG mission, as is ensuring that contractors are accountable for every taxpayer dollar they receive.”
Steve A. Linick, Inspector General for the U.S. Department of State, commenting on the $5 million settlement with Pacific Architects and Engineers for failing to follow vetting requirements for personnel working in Afghanistan under a State...
-- “If we want to move away from a dysfunctional, wasteful, bureaucratic system into a rational health-care system that guarantees coverage to everyone in a cost-effective way, the only way to do it is Medicare for All.”