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Dem sues drug firm, hospital, doctors for what the Feds say was his criminal conduct:
That explains it
One day after being indicted on federal fraud charges, former Rep. Edward Mezvinsky, Iowa Democrat, filed a lawsuit claiming he developed mental problems after using a malaria drug and subsequently ran up millions of dollars in debt, the Philadelphia Daily News reports.
Mr. Mezvinsky and his wife, former Rep. Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky, Pennsylvania Democrat, filed suit against Roche Holding AG, Presbyterian Medical Center in Philadelphia, a Montgomery County, Pa., pharmacy and Mr. Mezvinsky's physician, Dr. Bradley Fenton.
Mr. Mezvinsky took the drug Lariam for dozens of business trips to Africa in the 1990s.
From the suit: "As a result of the psychiatric syndrome caused by his long-term use of Lariam, he invested rashly in bad investments . . . [and] depleted his own financial resources, his wife's financial resources, as well as his wife's inheritance."
Said Mezvinsky attorney Michael Barrett: "Clearly, the responsibility lies with the manufacturers."
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