A convicted felon whose insider-trading deal ensnared Martha
Stewart is back to his dirty tricks, according to a $4 million lawsuit the New York Post has learned. Dr. Samuel Waksal, who ran the ImClone
pharmaceutical company, pleaded guilty to fraud in 2003 after tipping off
Stewart and other well-heeled pals that his firm’s new cancer drug would not be
approved by the FDA..
He’s now at the top of a new Manhattan-based drug company
called Kadmon — a name derived from the Jewish tradition of kabbalah. The firm
develops drugs that treat cancer and infectious and autoimmune diseases. A former business associate, Kevin Glodek,
charges that Waksal used him to raise capital for the new firm, then cut him
out of millions of dollars in promised commissions, according to the civil suit
filed Friday in Manhattan Supreme Court.....
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