Rummy so far as made 5 mil off Tamiflu

[donsu]

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article350787.ece

Donald Rumsfeld makes $5m killing on bird flu drug


Donald Rumsfeld has made a killing out of bird flu. The US Defence Secretary has made more than $5m (£2.9m) in capital gains from selling shares in the biotechnology firm that discovered and developed Tamiflu, the drug being bought in massive amounts by Governments to treat a possible human pandemic of the disease.

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The drug was developed by a Californian biotech company, Gilead Sciences. It is now made and sold by the giant chemical company Roche, which pays it a royalty on every tablet sold, currently about a fifth of its price.

Mr Rumsfeld was on the board of Gilead from 1988 to 2001, and was its chairman from 1997. He then left to join the Bush administration, but retained a huge shareholding .

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The 2005 report showed that, in all, he owned shares worth up to $95.9m, from which he got an income of up to $13m, owned land worth up to $17m, and made $1m from renting it out.

He also had illiquid investments worth up to $8.1m, including in partnerships investing in biotechnology, issuing reproductions of paintings, and operating art galleries in New Mexico and Wyoming. He also has life insurance with a surrender value of up to $5m, and received up to $1m from the DHR Foundation, in which he has assets worth up to $25m, and $773,743 from the Donald H Rumsfeld Trust, in which he has assets of up to $50m.
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I'd love to see war criminal Rummy stripped of all his money, standing shackled in his underwear.

something is fishy when only one company in the world makes a flu vacine.

I bet Cuba has one.

[sam sarrha]

1. he's dumping his stock, ..I'm sell'n off all mine too, it is going to tank

it doesnt work...it is aparently a fraud to make money with a scare-miester in the White House Cabinent

[sam sarrha]

2. i'd sell it if i had any, i am presently cutting my prescriptions in half

because i am unemployed and all the factories here in our part of the south are now residing in China.. yes folks they dont just send the jobs there the freight the factories too..

[Neil Lisst]

3. I'm convinced it's a prescription drug play and a control mechanism

the whole bird flu scare, that is