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system.<br />
Over the decades, working “both sides of the fence” also netted ADM a change in the Food for Peace<br />
legislation of the 1960s to allow that federal program to sell processed food (from ADM and other cartel<br />
companies), and action by Richard Nixon to open China’s wheat markets to ADM-supplied grain, to<br />
mention only a few of the good turns done for ADM.<br />
In <strong>197</strong>4, ADM entered into a price-fixing scheme that overcharged the U.S. Government $19 million in<br />
sales of soy-fortified food to the Food for Peace program. ADM was convicted. In <strong>197</strong>6, the company<br />
pleaded no contest to federal charges that it had systematically short-weighted and misgraded federally<br />
subsidized grain that was being shipped abroad.<br />
In 1984, Andreas met Mikhail Gorbachev for the first time. In 1990, Andreas contributed $1 million to<br />
create a Gorbachev Institute in the United States and Russia.<br />
Andreas was always close, as a result of his friendship with Hubert Humphrey, to the organized crimelinked<br />
Anti-Defamation League of the B’nai B’rith. During the 1980s, Andreas was persuaded by another<br />
major grain trader, Burton Joseph, of the Minneapolis-based S.I. Joseph Company, to contribute $1<br />
million to the ADL. Andreas made the payments in amounts of $50,000 to $<strong>10</strong>0,000 per year.<br />
In 1995, the U.S. Justice Department launched an investigation into fraud and anti-competitive price-fixing<br />
in ADM’s handling and marketing of corn sweeteners and lysine—a livestock feed supplement.<br />
Key personnel connected with ADM are: Howard Buffett, vice president of ADM and son of Warren<br />
Buffett; Robert Strauss, George Bush’s ambassador to Russia, 1991-1993; Brian Mulroney, former prime<br />
minister of Canada; Michael Andreas, son of Dwayne Andreas and heir-apparent to the empire.<br />
Dwayne Andreas sits on the Hollinger International Advisory Board, headed by Lady Margaret Thatcher,<br />
Henry Kissinger, and Lord Peter Carrington. Also on the Hollinger board are Evelyn de Rothschild,<br />
Giovanni Agnelli of FIAT, and former Fed chief Paul Volcker. [End quoting]<br />
Andreas rips off billions from our taxes and his customers through price fixing and gets fined pennies on the<br />
dollar.<br />
ITALY WITHDRAWS VACCINE<br />
DERIVED FROM CATTLE PARTS<br />
From NEWSPOT, West Coast Edition, 1/27/97, http://www.merc.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi, [quoting:]<br />
The Italian Health Ministry said on Monday it had withdrawn a type of meningitis vaccine made with cattle<br />
derivatives that is commonly used on children, because of the potential risks associated with mad cow<br />
disease.<br />
The ministry said in a statement it had ordered the drug HIB TITER, produced in Italy by a unit of American<br />
Cyanamid (CYNA.BO) Co, to be withdrawn as a precaution pending further consultation with phar-<br />
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