… a 70-year old chief medical officer at the California-based firm Immix Biopharma was found to be a fugitive sex predator who disappeared during his 2005 trial. Though he went by Richard Graydon in the more than twenty years since, his real name turns out to be Ronald Fischer — an anesthesiologist accused of raping numerous women on his various yachts (yes, plural).
I have had to go through so many background checks and have had to prove identity and work status to get a job. How can you become an exec of a modern company on a fake name?
I think at a certain level (i.e. “this guy is going to make us millions of dollars and my buddy plays pickleball with him”) those checks are probably waived.
Like many other things go these days, the experience is completely different if you’re in the club.
The adage, “It’s not what you know, but who you know,” is an adage for that reason.
But how did he stay in the club while being a fugitive from the law? How did he maintain access to his assets?
People in this club think of his as petty offenses. Just like you going by red over the street.
If undocumented immigrants can pay dealers to get social security numbers, then a doctor/executive certainly can as well.
So many undocumented immigrants going for those CMO roles these days.
Read more carefully please.
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I think people misunderstand your comment.
What I suspect you’re saying is that if those in a disadvantageous position, likely having limited financial, social, and political capital, can acquire a fictitious, functional identity, then someone with the means to afford multiple yachts absolutely can do so.
Indeed. That’s what I meant. It’s not a dig on undocumented folks. It’s just a simple fact that if people with very few resources, who may not even speak English can manage to obtain fake IDs allowing them to find work in the US, then someone with yacht money certainly can as well.
If undocumented immigrants want any work other than cash day labor, they have to obtain an ID. Often this is through brokers. Sometimes one person will rent out their social security number to multiple other people. Sometimes the SSNs of dead people get bought and sold.
But for any serious job in the US, you’ll have to get past the e-verify system. And that requires documents. And if undocumented immigrants can obtain that paperwork, so can a doctor or executive.
Biotech CEOs are all psychopaths, this is not surprising at all.
Yet somehow his crimes against humanity as a pharma exec remain unpunished.
Fairly sure he was rewarded for that part
What was he supposed to do, stop committing horrific crimes?
2005 was twenty years ago? WTF?
21.5 years even
Thought this was the Onion. Almost like “man accused of pedophilia caught hiding as POTUS”.
Refusing to abandon his yachts or the medical career that paid for them, […] Fischer was arrested after US Marshals boarded his 56-foot vessel, The Silver Lining, as it sailed down New York’s East River.
The Onion qualities don’t stop there
To be fair, a rapist would fit right in with phama leadership.
Literally in the first paragraph:
…hid out in one of the places you’d most expect — the corner office of a Big Pharma company.
Reality needs to get better material, we’ve all heard this one before
Seriously, the writers are getting lazy.
How does one get away with this during this day and age? It seems like it would be close to impossible without some help from a government employee or something. Maybe there’s a black market.
I’m gonna go out on a limb here and assume he’s white and wealthy/connected.
*Edit: I should probably just read the damn article before jumping to conclusions but the “raping women on his yachts” part seems to back this suspicion up.
I’m gonna go out on a limb here and assume he’s white and wealthy/connected.
My friend that’s not a limb, it’s a root. You’re still on the lawn. Of course it’s a wealthy white dude.
With so much connected, online, cameras everywhere, one would think it wouldn’t be possible to hide like this, let alone in broad daylight.
The Internet in 2005 was very different plus he’s very rich
Mainly it’s that he’s very rich.
You mean a man who Committed HORRIBLE Sex Crimes was Hiding as someone who DIRECTLY makes Policies for Americans? AND was doing that With Jeffrey Epstein’s BEST FRIENDS in Congress? That’s NEARLY IMPOSSIBLE to Imagine!
These elites have some bad apples, huh?
Wait, these are crimes separate from his day to day work as a pharma executive?
Yeah, he stopped getting off on raping just one or two people at a time so he became a big pharma executive so he can rape tens of thousands to millions with each decision.
Remember seeing that cancer pill that costs under $1 in other countries and like $800+ each in the US? That’s one of his.
Wait, no shit? That’s almost too coincidental, but absolutely believable
Nah, I was making that up just to show that the leap from rapist to big pharma exec isn’t all that big.
Yes. I was confused too. 😆
It is too late. I hope he has a good sex life in prison. There are plenty of sexual predators who will help him experience what it is like to be a victim.
