Ex-Pharmaceutical Exec's New Book Is Available on Pacer; He Was Sentenced to Write It
If you want to read the new book by former pharmaceutical executive Andrew Bodnar, you will need an account with Pacer.
The Wall Street Journal (sub. req.) explains why. Bodnar pleaded guilty in 2009 to providing a false certificate to the government about his settlement of Plavix patent litigation. He was sentenced to two years of probation, with the condition he write a book reflecting on his criminal behavior. “The judge didn’t throw the book at him—he ordered him to write one,” the story says.
Bodnar, who majored in English at Harvard, submitted his 253-page manuscript through Pacer in October, the story says. But he may not have learned the intended lesson.
Bodnar insists in the book that he believed his certification was true when he submitted it to the government, according to the Wall Street Journal account. And he shows his irritation with the prosecution in a passage about the FBI raid of his office in 2006. “Chaos reigns but, as I will soon learn, this is as nothing compared to the vacuum that is about to suck the air from my every breath for years to come,” he says.
Bodnar isn’t the only defendant saddled with a writing assignment. A federal judge in California recently approved a magistrate’s plan to require a defendant to complete daily book reports.
