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Howard Richman, Ex-Biopure Exec, To Plead Guilty To Faking Cancer To Dodge Federal Lawsuit


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The SEC complaint accused Biopure, Richman and three other executives of misleading investors over the prospects of winning approval for a synthetic blood product called Hemopure.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration had rejected clinical trials because of safety concerns about Hemopure, a blood substitute made from cow hemoglobin.
In October 2006, Richman's lawyers told the judge their client was gravely ill from colon cancer and had less than a 15 percent chance of survival. Richman allegedly produced a forged doctor's note that said he was being treated with surgery and chemotherapy.
The next month, Richman's lawyer told the judge that her client's cancer had spread and that he was undergoing chemotherapy. Dowden said in court Wednesday that Richman "posed as his treating physician" during a phone call with the lawyer.

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