Former Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc. executive Gary Tanner was found guilty of accepting a $10 million bribe for manipulating the company’s takeover of a start-up mail-order pharmacy in 2014.

Andrew Davenport, former Philidor Rx Services LLC chief executive officer, of Haverford, who paid the kickback, was also convicted Tuesday after a three-week trial. The jury verdict in Manhattan federal court is the latest fallout from a scandal that shook the drugmaker three years ago.

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MAY 22, 2018 / 7:16 PM / UPDATED 8 HOURS AGO

Businessman who sold diseased human body parts gets 9 years in prison

Serena Maria Daniels, John Shiffman

DETROIT (Reuters) - A Detroit businessman who sold and leased human body parts was sentenced to nine years in prison Tuesday for selling diseased remains to medical educators.

Arthur Rathburn, 64, is the third and most significant person convicted as part of a national investigation into the largely unregulated market for body parts in the United States. The Federal Bureau of Investigation is also investigating other so-called body brokers in Illinois, Oregon and Colorado, and has executed search warrants in each of those cases.

Prosecutors said Rathburn earned $13 million from 1997 to 2013 by selling or leasing human remains that had been donated to science.

………….Earlier, Rathburn’s ex-wife, Elizabeth Rathburn, and one of the couple’s suppliers, Steve Gore, were also convicted of fraud. Each pleaded guilty, was sentenced to probation, and testified against Arthur Rathburn. Gore ran the Phoenix-based Biological Resource Center, which sold more than 20,000 parts from some 5,000 human bodies over a decade. It closed in 2014, following a raid by the FBI.

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Who would have thought just a couple of years ago that Prince Harry would marry a minor actress from the U.S. television series Suits?

A VERY special relationship: Why Meghan for US President isn't as crazy as it sounds!

Yet I hear the Royal Wedding could be just the start of an even bigger Anglo-American drama.

Meghan Markle is said to have told a former close associate that her ultimate ambition is to be president of the U.S. The conversation apparently took place after Meghan began her romance with Prince Harry.

‘Meghan was quite clear that she wanted to be president one day,’ the source claims.

It may sound fanciful, but the new Duchess of Sussex has held the ambition since she was a little girl. In 2015, she reportedly told the journalist Piers Morgan that she had not always sought showbusiness success.

‘As a kid, I wanted to be either the president or a news broadcaster like you,’ she told him.

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