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Meridien Research named in lawsuit for research fraud

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Tampa-based Meridien Research could be in some pretty hot water. A former nurse for the medical research company is seeking damages in Hillsborough court as a whistleblower after she claims she was fired for uncovering research fraud. According to lawsuit documents, Cindy Anne Mannis worked as site director at Meridien’s Tampa location along with Dr. Cynthia Huffman, the site’s principal investigator. Meridien conducts clinical drug trials for major pharmaceutical and biotech companies that are seeing FDA approval on new medicines.…

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Self-styled D.C. “outsider” Steve Southerland turns up as Washington lobbyist

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On the campaign trail, former U.S. Rep.  Steve Southerland would always take great pains to remind anyone who would listen — especially anyone with a camera — that he was from the “real America.” He’d tell you he wasn’t some snobby sophisticate with insider ties to Capitol Hill power players like his 2014 opponent Gwen Graham. By Southerland’s account, the admittedly polished Graham was so tied in with the Washington establishment she was “more Potomac than Gulf Coast,” to use the National Republican Congressional Committee’s phrase.…

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