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Documents detailing the "close relationship" between child psychiatrist Smokin' Joe Biederman and Johnson & Johnson have surfaced from discovery efforts in a legal case.
They portray Biederman as using his influence to get money out of Johnson & Johnson.
In an e-mail from November 1999, for example, Johnson & Johnson marketing executive John Bruins warned his bosses to quickly issue a $3,000 check to Biederman in payment for a lecture he gave.
Documents detailing the "close relationship" between child psychiatrist Smokin' Joe Biederman and Johnson & Johnson have surfaced from discovery efforts in a legal case.
They portray Biederman as using his influence to get money out of Johnson & Johnson.
In an e-mail from November 1999, for example, Johnson & Johnson marketing executive John Bruins warned his bosses to quickly issue a $3,000 check to Biederman in payment for a lecture he gave.
"Dr. Biederman is not someone to jerk around," Bruins wrote. "He is a very proud national figure in child psych and has a very short fuse."
Bruins also suggested that Biederman had taken business away from Johnson & Johnson after the company turned down the doctor's request for a $280,000 research grant.
"I have never seen someone so angry," Bruins wrote. "Since that time, our business became non-existant (sic) within his area of control."
Johnson & Johnson gave hundreds of thousands of dollars to a research center run by the influential child psychiatrist specifically to generate data to help expand sales of the company's antipsychotic drug Risperdal in children, according to court documents.
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