Former FDAer pleads guilty
Executive Summary
Charles Chang enters guilty pleas to two counts of interstate travel in aid of racketeering in Baltimore federal court on May 25. The charges, filed May 9 as part of a criminal investigation into drug industry attempts to influence generic drug reviews, involved the shipment of gifts across state lines to Chang and his flight from Maryland to New York on the first leg of a free trip to Hong Kong. Chang was a chemistry review branch chief within FDA's Generic Drugs Division before he resigned on April 28. He is scheduled to be sentenced in a few weeks.