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LUBBOCK, Texas — Texas Tech professor
Thomas C. Butler, who earlier this year reported
vials of plague bacteria missing from his laborato
ry, pleaded innocent to 54 additional counts of
theft, embezzlement and fraud in federal court
Wednesday.
Butler already was facing 15 charges, including
smuggling plague samples from
Tanzania, lying to investigators and ss
illegal transport of hazardous bio
logical material — in this case, live
plague bacteria — stemming from
his report to authorities in January.
The additional charges allege
Butler was involved in a scheme and
orchestrated “shadow" agreements
with two pharmaceutical compa
nies. The agreement provided that
the companies “pay him amounts
separate from and above the pay
ments that the companies” were
Ultimately, the
board of regents will
vote whether to
dismiss him.
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obligated to pay the university’s health science
center under terms of the clinical study agreement.
Butler allegedly received payments from the
companies between August 1998 and August 2001.
He was also alleged to have “provided false and
misleading information when he identified com
pensation. payment, and other financial incentives
to researchers.”
He declined to comment as he left the court
room Wednesday.
He was arraigned before U.S. Magistraie'
Koenig and remained free on $100,000 bond
The scientist reported in January that 30\
the bacteria responsible for the deadly disease
missing from a university lab. The report,!
amid public worry over biological attack, in
a terrorism-alert plan and prompted the FBli
dozens of agents to the West Texas city.
Butler, 62, remains on paid adminis;
leave from his job as chief of the infeclio
eases division at Tech and is(
ited from visiting his lab
Last week, the president
Health Science Center
Butler a letter recommend
the professor be dismis
cause, said Tech spoke
Cindy Rougeley.
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will vote whether to dis
It's a lengthy process. It could^
year,” she said.
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Tech spokeswoman
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The academy’s Committee on Human
asked its members, which also include i
the National Academy of Engineer
Institute of Medicine, to express their
Butler in letters to Ashcroft and Robert
the FBI director.
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HOUSTON — As former
WorldCom boss Bernie Ebbers
answers fraud charges in
Oklahoma, experts say prosecu
tors elsewhere may feel pressure
to more aggressively pursue
charges against top executives at
Enron Corp.
Enron’s former chief execu
tive, Kenneth Lay, and his suc
cessor, Jeffrey Skilling, have yet
to be charged more than 18
months into the federal govern
ment’s criminal investigation of
misdeeds that fueled the compa
ny’s 2001 bankruptcy.
Lay’s $70 million in stock
sales as Enron’s share price tum
bled in 2001 have been scruti
nized by federal investigators
looking into the causes of the
company’s collapse. His lawyers,
who maintain the sales were
proper, have met with prosecutors
three times and will cooperate
further if asked, said one of those
attorneys, Michael Ramsey.
‘They're doing a thorough
investigation, and 1 personally
believe they will satisfy them
selves there is no crime Ken Lay
is guilty of.” Ramsey said.
Skilling was a key Lay deputy
and then CEO for just six months
when he quit abruptly just weeks
before Enron went bankrupt. He
told Congress last year he knew
nothing improper about shady
partnerships and other financing
arrangements credited
dooming the company,
consistently maintained
for personal reasons.
“We’ve always
we’re hopeful any
with jurisdiction would
the proper conclusion,
conclusion is that thei
case” against Skilling,
attorney. Bruce Hiler.
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against Ebbers. without
for action by federal justi«
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