Chinese FDA Chief gets Death Penalty - July 9

BEIJING, July 7 (UPI) -- A former top official with the state Food and Drug Administration in China has been sentenced to death for taking bribes to approve defective drugs.

Cao Wenzhuang was given a two-year reprieve Friday on the execution of his sentence, The New York Times reported. That means there is a good chance the sentence will be commuted to life imprisonment, the newspaper said.

In February 2007, former FDA Commissioner Lester Crawford was sentenced to three years' supervised probation with fines of roughly $90,000 for lying about stocks he owned in companies regulated by the FDA while he was Commissioner. Crawford pled guilty in October 06 to charges of having a conflict of interest and false reporting of his stock records.

Crawford should be thankful he headed the US FDA and not China’s FDA.

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