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"America's worldwide pusher of synthetic drugs, baby formula, beauty products, and household cleaners, from Bufferin and Excedrin to Clairol, Drano, and Enfamil infant formula, which has earned B-MS the enmity of many a mom: Boycotted for the way it's pushed its baby formula on poor mothers, in 1998 Bristol-Myers settled a class-action lawsuit (with two other companies) after being accused of price-fixing their Enfamil formula (though they were not found guilty). During WWII , Bristol-Myers Squibb supplied Penicillin and Morphine to the troops. In the 1990s, the company developed the AIDS drug DDI, one of the AIDS cocktails. CEO Richard Gelb and his brother, company president Bruce Gelb, are both staunch Republican and close friend of George Bush Sr. Bruce left Bristol-Myers in 1989 to head the US Information Agency and later served as ambassador to Belgium during the Bush Sr. administration. The Gelb brothers founded Clairol, and both attended the exclusive Philips Academy with Bush and later Yale as well (where Bush and Richard graduated the same class, 1948-leading to the likelihood that Dick Gelb was a member of the Skull + Bones secret society)" Bristol-Myers was one of the companies, who profited from the Anthrax-"Attacks" and got a big percentage of the "$3 billion on biodefense". (In 2000) Bristol-Myers "has contributed just under $650,000 in soft money, PAC and individual contributions to federal parties and candidates, 78 percent to Republicans. The latest installment: a $250,000 check the company contributed to the NRSC on Oct. 22-just days after the Senate approved its version of the bill" Source: http://www.opensecrets.org/alerts/v5/aae_total.asp
In February 2002, Thomas Pickard (ex-FBI) started to work for Bristol Meyers Squibb. http://www.bms.com/news/press/data/pf_press_release_2226.html