Rummy and Bird Flu

[madeline_con]

Donald H. Rumsfeld Named Chairman of Gilead Sciences

Foster City, CA, January 3, 1997 - Gilead Sciences Inc. (Nasdaq: GILD) today announced that board member Donald H. Rumsfeld will assume the position of Chairman, effective immediately. Mr. Rumsfeld succeeds Michael L. Riordan, M.D., who founded Gilead in 1987 and has served as Chairman since 1993. Dr. Riordan will continue to serve as a director on the board.

"Gilead is fortunate to have had Don Rumsfeld as a stalwart board member since the company's earliest days, and we are very pleased that he has accepted the Chairmanship," Dr. Riordan said. "He has played an important role in helping to build and steer the company. His broad experience in leadership positions in both industry and government will serve us well as Gilead continues to build its commercial presence."

http://www.gilead.com/wt/sec/pr_933190157/

Rumsfeld's growing stake in Tamiflu
Defense Secretary, ex-chairman of flu treatment rights holder, sees portfolio value growing.
October 31, 2005 By Nelson D. Schwartz


NEW YORK (Fortune) - The prospect of a bird flu outbreak may be panicking people around the globe, but it's proving to be very good news for Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other politically connected investors in Gilead Sciences, the California biotech company that owns the rights to Tamiflu, the influenza remedy that's now the most-sought after drug in the world.


http://money.cnn.com/2005/10/31/news/newsmakers/fortune_rumsfeld/

Apologies if this is a dupe. :blush:

[MadMaddie]

1. How is this not a crime?

[Olney Blue]

2. We are living in la-la land, what was wrong is right.

[MadMaddie]

3. This reminds me of V-Vendetta....government officials had

monetary involvement in the companies that cured the government planted disiese in the water supply...

[madeline_con]

4. It probably is...

but when has that ever stopped this regime?

It certainly explains the panic over a few sick chickens. Be afraid. Be very afraid.