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NL888 Posted 12 years ago
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Does "now-former company" mean "at present, (his company doesn't exist, but he had a company before - "his former company")?
Context:
Once a pharmaceutical executive and socialite, Scott Harkonen now lives under house arrest and faces professional debarment. His crime: misrepresenting scientific data. But Harkonen is arguing to the US Supreme Court that he did not misrepresent anything.
Federal prosecutors convicted him in 2009 of wire fraud — using false communications to obtain money — for hyping the results of a clinical trial and encouraging the unapproved use of his now-former company’s lung-disease drug. Eighteen months later, a judge sentenced him to six months’ home confinement and a US$20,000 fine; in March this year, a federal appeals court upheld the conviction.
More:
http://www.nature.com/news/uncertainty-on-trial-1.13868
Once a pharmaceutical executive and socialite, Scott Harkonen now lives under house arrest and faces professional debarment. His crime: misrepresenting scientific data. But Harkonen is arguing to the US Supreme Court that he did not misrepresent anything.
Federal prosecutors convicted him in 2009 of wire fraud — using false communications to obtain money — for hyping the results of a clinical trial and encouraging the unapproved use of his now-former company’s lung-disease drug. Eighteen months later, a judge sentenced him to six months’ home confinement and a US$20,000 fine; in March this year, a federal appeals court upheld the conviction.
More:
http://www.nature.com/news/uncertainty-on-trial-1.13868
Top answer
Probably. Or it may still exist but no longer belong to him.
- Probably.
- Or it may still exist but no longer belong to him.
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