Post-Enron hostility to corporate fraud takes its toll on a lab exec.The growing disgust with corporate misdeeds hit a former vice president of Damon Clinical Testing Laboratories Inc. hard Aug. 4, as a federal appeals court saddled him with a five-year prison term in a blistering opinion.
William Thurston was originally sentenced by the trial court to three months in prison followed by supervised release for his role in a bundling scheme. But in United States v. Thurston (No. 02-1966 & 02-1967), the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the trial court's sentence and imposed the...
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