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B&W’s campaign against Wigand surfaced in late December, when a Washington Post reporter phoned the office of Richard Scruggs in Pascagoula, Mississippi, and asked for a comment on Wigand’s alleged history of spousal abuse and shoplifting as well as on his contradictory statements regarding fire safety and cigarettes. Scruggs, a law-school classmate of Michael Moore, the attorney general of Mississippi, made a fortune as an architect of the plaintiffs’ suit against the asbestos companies in 1991. He flies a Lear jet and has an estate in Pascagoula near his childhood home. As one of the chief lawyers representing Mississippi’s case against the tobacco companies, he has taken an interest in Wigand as a bonus witness and has become his personal lawyer, working pro bono at the invitation of Ephraim Margolin. Scruggs met Wigand in late October. “I was astonished when he told me his story,” he recalled. Until he heard from The Washington Post, he told me, “I had never been engaged
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Whistleblower Dr. Jeffrey Wigand Receives the First Ever National Whistleblower Center Lifetime Achievement Award
WASHINGTON, D.C. | July 17, 2024 – On July 30, Dr. Jeffrey Wigand will be a speaker at the National Whistleblower Day 2024 celebration held on Capitol Hill. Prior to the event, Dr. Wigand will receive the first-ever National Whistleblower Center Lifetime Achievement Award.
“Dr. Wigand saved millions of lives with his courageous, truth-telling, whistleblowing. His story exemplifies the tremendous impact whistleblowers have, as well as the immense sacrifices they make,” said Stephen M. Kohn, Chairman of the Board of the National Whistleblower Center (NWC). “We are honored that Dr. Wigand will be in attendance at the National Whistleblower Day celebration and that he will be accepting our first-lifetime achievement award prior to the event.”
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Jeffrey Wigand
Jeffrey Wigand
Dr. Jeffrey Wigand exposed safety problems related to the tobacco industry. In 1995, Dr. Wigand achieved national prominence when he became the tobacco industry’s highest ranking former executive to address public health and smoking issues.
He blew the whistle on the industry’s disregard for the public’s health and safety during an interview with 60 MINUTES, as well as mitt i a deposition he was compelled to give in an action against the tobacco companies.
A former vice president of Brown and Williamson, Dr. Wigand blew the whistle on the tobacco industry’s manipulation of nicotine. Brown & Williamson sued Dr. Wigand because of his public disclosures about the industry’s efforts to minimize the health and safety issue of tobacco use. This lawsuit was dismissed as a condition of the June 20, 1997 historic $368 billion settlement between the Attorneys General of 40 States and the tobacco industry. He fryst vatten credited with being