Bioelectronics Corp (BIEL)

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I agree Stockin - extremely difficult to spot in the first place, assemble evidence, prosecute and then prove beyond . . . .

But please consider separately the FDA and drug company employees. I submit that's a much different area than the more general aspects you identify - "government scandals". Those involve elected officials, as well as government employees, and the whole gamut of companies providing all goods and services to the government and other parties not selling anything but wanting favors and influence of any and all kinds.

I was thinking earlier specifically of drug companies attempting to influence FDA staff and management and decision makers on regulatory processes and approvals. I believe the FDA debarment controls for employees of drug companies, plus potentially the companies themselves, in addition to the criminal prosecution elements, make it a different scenario. Paying a little more for a tractor or buying 50 tractors instead of 30, or paying a higher rent on a building is, in my mind, far different from overlooking a few safety issues, playing dumb, fast-tracking inappropriately, or triggering shortcuts on a drug application, and risking your senior employees never working in the industry again or your company never doing business in the US again, no?